Immersion Quotes - Page 2

• Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

  Werner Herzog

  Curiosity, Spirit, Common

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Real, Self, Creating

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Father, Son, Secret

  FaceBook post by Anne Graham Lotz from Jan 07, 2015

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• Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

  Laozi

  Positivity, Years, Roots

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• Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Reality, May

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.43, Penguin

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• The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

  Ken Wilber

  Engagement, Sage, Midst

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.279, Shambhala Publications

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• I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

  Karen Russell

  World, Students, Company

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• There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

  Sarah Stillman

  Space, Listening, Details

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Unique, Long

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Boys, People

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1993.

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• My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Mom, School, Taught

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• The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Feelings, Identity

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Book, Hours

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• The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

  John Calvin

  Practice, Church, Ancient

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

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• There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Creative, Balance

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.24, Algonquin Books

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• April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

  Franz Kafka

  Thinking, People, April

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

  Richard Powers

  Age, Digital, Impossible

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• How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Voice, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

  Brigid Brophy

  Book, Fall, Age

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• I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

  Rick Alverson

  Thinking, Play, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.

  Camillo Golgi

  Believe, Communication, Gray Matter

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• The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Journey, Perfect

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.103, Macmillan

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• My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Used, Masters

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

  Margaret Atwood

  What Matters, Hands, Gardening

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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