Absorbing Quotes - Page 9

• A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

  Sylvia Nasar

  Profound, Genius, Compulsion

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• An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty.

  John Hospers

  Government, America, Long

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• I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

  Hayden Carruth

  Song, Stars, Flower

  Hayden Carruth (1998). “Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press

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• Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

  David Rusenko

  Garden, Conversation, Focused

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• I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

  Sebastian Junger

  Risk, Training, News

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• Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father of the Eisenhower Doctrine that still defines US policy in the Middle East . . . in 1956 battled demons in bodies personal and politic and in the desert – and prevailed. Nichols’ book, written lean enough to allow the facts to speak for themselves, makes for exciting history.

  Carlo Wolff

  Father, Book, President

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• The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Moving, Destiny, Men

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• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

  Jim Rohn

  Learning, Differences, People

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• For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.

  Daniel Goleman

  Learning, Anxiety, Challenges

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.156, Bantam

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• I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

  Ross Bleckner

  New York, Space, People

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• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  John Grierson

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, May, Pleasure

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• I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Iron, Saws

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Floating, May

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• I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Dark, Light

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• The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

  Hallie Burnett

  Art, Stories, May

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• Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.

  Donal Henahan

  Piano, Sobriety, Missing

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• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

  Victor Hugo

  Persistence, Ideas, Terrible

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

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• The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Adults, Relation

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• Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Mirrors, Kind, Reflecting

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• No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Luxury, Heartless

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Order, Found

  Interview with Jonathan Lethem, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Giving, Tools

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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