Absorb Quotes

407 quotes by 367 authors

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. — Dave Barry
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a… — Jean Baudrillard
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. — Theodor Adorno
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting. — Jacqueline Bisset
A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice… — Jo Brand
I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually. — Luke Bryan
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of… — Pearl S. Buck
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.… — Pearl S. Buck
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. — Michael Chabon
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I… — Eric Clapton
I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution. — Janet Reno
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then… — Tadao Ando
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories. — Chris Brogan
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was… — Lance Armstrong
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the… — Henry David Thoreau
[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that… — Bill Gates
A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards… — Ming-Dao Deng

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