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
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess 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
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
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it. — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr 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
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
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 future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change. — Seth Godin 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
There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this… — Maria Montessori 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
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
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
As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting… — Mahershala Ali 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
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
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
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter 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
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
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell 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
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it. — Arthur J. Deikman Copy Share Image
