I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art. — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly… — Srully Blotnick 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
And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of… — Ian Anthony Dale Copy Share Image
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… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of… — George Biddell Airy Copy Share Image
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian… — Duncan Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image