Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
If we go to a party, I'll just be chilling in the corner, absorbing everything. — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it. — Arthur J. Deikman Copy Share Image
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an… — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere? — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in… — Heather Gudenkauf Copy Share Image
You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You… — Derek Clayton Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
Edge also implies what Ben Graham…called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge. Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that… — Dominic O'Brien Copy Share Image
The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.” — Prerak Trivedi Copy Share Image
“Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as… — Roman Dmowski Copy Share Image