The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess 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
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it. — Arthur J. Deikman 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
Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. — Florence Scovel Shinn 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
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
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
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… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,… — Janette Turner Hospital 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
“He’s a sponge. His eyes are wide open. You can see him absorbing his surroundings, feeding off everything that’s going on. No… — Shawna Richer Copy Share Image
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson 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
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
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
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
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
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
Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound.… — Morihei Ueshiba 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
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it. — Lindi Ortega 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
“one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself… — Gloria Steinem 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
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
