Absorb Quotes
407 quotes by 367 authors
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Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to…
— Mao Zedong
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Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
— Ben Bernanke
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Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency…
— Peter Senge
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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety…
— Georg Simmel
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Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no…
— Henry Martyn
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It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
— Nicole Kidman
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Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
— David Rusenko
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Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and…
— Jonny Lee Miller
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Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.
— John C. Maxwell
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I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking…
— Sebastian Junger
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I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry…
— Charlie Kaufman
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
— Rahul Gandhi
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing…
— Maria Montessori
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When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
— Timothy Keller
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Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.
— Tom Waits
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does…
— Andre Gide
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
— Alan Perlis
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