Absorbing Quotes - Page 7

• I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

  Edmund White

  Dream, Irrelevance, Shadow

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Special, Kind

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• The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

  Timothy Keller

  Pain, Essence, Giving

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Reading, Moon

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• I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.

  Colin Hanks

  Jobs, Couple, Years

  "Colin Hanks and John Stalberg Talk HIGH SCHOOL, Stoner Comedies, Directing and Comparing Filmmaking to Parenthood". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been swimming and running my entire life, and I've been given so much support the last few years in cycling, that I've been able to improve. And I'm still improving and still absorbing that support to help me get to be the best that I can be.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Running, Swimming, Cycling

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• Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Men, Circles

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dream, Butterfly, Thinking

  "Infinite in All Directions". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Ego, Disease, Consciousness

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Energy, Depth, Rivals

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Dark Tales (Illustrated Edition): Gothic Classics: “The House of the Seven Gables”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, “Birthmark”, “An Old Woman’s Tale”, “Ghost of Doctor Harris”…”, p.306, e-artnow

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• I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Age, Scratches

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• I don't really feel pressure. I'm so distracted by what we're doing; I'm doing this four-acre project, it's just absorbing all my attention. Before you know it we're onto the next project, and so on and so forth.

  Tavares Strachan

  Attention, Acres, Four

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

  Sheila Heti

  Art, Philosophy, Class

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Energy, Ministry

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• Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would clearly leave them all behind because of its much greater magnitude. And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous.

  Ptolemy

  Moving, Fall, Science

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• Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

  Paul Johnson

  America, World, Mixtures

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• And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me-my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift...I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing-yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy-yes, happy!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Appreciate, Doe

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• Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.

  Francis Thompson

  Baby, Adults, Development

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• No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history… because you are playing the part. You don’t say: “Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers…” because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom.

  Cate Blanchett

  Play, Long, Comforting

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.

  Al Gore

  Long, Political, Age

  Saving the Constitution Speech at Constitution Hall, delivered 16 January 2006, Washington, D.C.

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• I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time.
  Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing
  and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the
  areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing
  material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Powerful, Teaching

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• I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.

  Maria Popova

  Fall, Home, Bad Day

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• Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

  Frederic Tuten

  Contemporary Fiction, Depth, Stories

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