Quotes About Absorption

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

I'm not good at concentrating.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.

When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

When I'm playing football I'm switched off to everything else - it frees my mind.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

Because the writer has done her job, the world of the book I am reading has become, for the moment at least, more real than the world at my elbow. Books this good should carry a warning: Your quiche might burn, your child might escape his playpen, the morning glory vine might strangle your roses, and you'll never know.

It soaked into me like water into sand, fast and heavy-making.

Il faut bien comprendre qu'il ne s'agit point, dans notre pensée, de déclarer illégitime en elle-même une connaissance quelconque, même inférieure ; ce qui est illégitime, c'est seulement l'abus qui se produit lorsque des choses de ce genre absorbent toute l'activité humaine, ainsi que nous le voyons actuellement.

You want to draw your readers into the world you've created, make them feel a part of it, make them forget where they are. And you can't do this effectively if you tell your readers about your world secondhand. You

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

adquirir el hábito de tomar notas es una capacidad que se complementa de maravilla con el arte de escuchar. ¡Por favor, anote esto para que no se le olvide!

Everyone she worked alongside in France had been insatiable letter-writers and resolute diary-keepers, but Gwendolen had felt no urge to chronicle, no desire for an aide-mémoire. Life was for absorbing, not recording. And in the end, it was all just paper that someone would have to dispose of after you were gone. Perhaps, after all, one's purpose in this world was to be forgotten, not remembered.