Quotes About Absorption

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls "flow")

But the true believer is not really interacting with the belief system; he usually lets his psychic energy be absorbed by it. From this submission nothing new can come; consciousness may attain a welcome order, but it will be an order imposed rather than achieved.

optimal experience based on the concept of flow—the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing

When all a person's relevant skills are needed to cope with the challenges of a situation, that person's attention is completely absorbed by the activity.

concepto del flujo, el estado en el cual las personas se hallan tan involucradas en la actividad que nada más parece importarles;

without disinterested interest life is uninteresting.

If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.

If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, you will become interested in it.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

There seem to be three different ways that we learn, but unequivocally, we learn best when there is a dynamic interplay between all three at one time: 1) Classroom/Lecture passing on of information 2) Apprenticeship 3) Immersion

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering—because you can't take it all in at once. AUDREY HEPBURN

When I got into music I went all the way into music; I didn't have no time after that for nothing else.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

The danger is that is Christians do not consciously develop a biblical approach to a subject, then we will unconsciously absorb some other philosophical approach.

Oh, that we would be as attentive to the Word as a newborn is to the milk.

In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

Relax as you read and absorb it, as by osmosis, with your whole body and mind. And don't just read it. Write. Trust yourself. Learn your own needs. Use this book.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

They evolve because of the experiences and resulting expectations of people as they buy, use, adapt, discuss and interact with the brand and the absorption of those experiences by employees who in turn can use that knowledge to re-structure and re-present the brand.

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

It's one of the Filter theories. Absorption into simulations. Cultures swirling out of the universe like dirty water down a plug. Derealization vortices.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.