Absorb Quotes
407 quotes by 367 authors
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of…
— William Osler
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
— Pythagoras
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow…
— William Osler
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Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet.…
— Luther Burbank
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A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?
— Jonathan Gottschall
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Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being…
— Jamais Cascio
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In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t…
— Todd Burpo
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The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms…
— Edward Thomas
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We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the…
— David Gelernter
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Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.
— Judd Apatow
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How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's…
— Amy Grant
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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
— Charles Darwin
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Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could…
— Fred Durst
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It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes…
— Giada De Laurentiis
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
— Roger Ebert
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the…
— Salma Hayek
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in…
— Audrey Hepburn
Who Wrote These Absorb Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 407 Absorb Quotes, led by these top contributors: