Quotes About Absorption

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened.

pero la impaciencia y la anhelación no son controlables y absorben.

A book is not complete until it's read

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present...

you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

Since the fanciful vision of the future that had flitted through her imagination at their first meeting she had hardly ever thought of his marrying her. She had not had to put the thought from her mind; it had not been there. If ever she looked ahead she felt instinctively that the gulf between them was too deep, and that the bridge their passion had flung across it was as insubstantial as a rainbow. But she seldom looked ahead; each day was so rich that it absorbed her....

But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England!

Don't forget your eyes because I inhabit them

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Una delle principali premesse di questo studio è che un totale coinvolgimento con ciò che si sta facendo è la condizione essenziale del piacere. Un coinvolgimento parziale ci lascia divisi e in conflitto. p. 12

I read like the flame reads the wood.

I don't deny that I study everything. Stuff from the 70s, 80s, 90s, current I watch it all.

Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever played with - what they do. You see what they do and how you can put that into your game.

When I work with a character like Valjean on stage, I get totally absorbed in that man. I become that man. But there's always, outside of that, the third eye, which watches what you're doing. And you can say to yourself, 'I'm crying well' or 'I'm being angry well.' But there's always that element there, and it never stops.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.