Absorbing Quotes
143 quotes by 129 authors
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This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
— Martin Amis
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The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas…
— Ayrton Senna
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The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens…
— Sonia Choquette
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
— Seth Godin
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Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.
— Ronald Reagan
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Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have…
— Edward Wilmot Blyden
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I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.
— Tomi Ungerer
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Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have…
— Sam Kean
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An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of…
— John Hospers
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I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped…
— Hayden Carruth
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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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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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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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The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
— Timothy Keller
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Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father…
— Carlo Wolff
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The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get…
— Jim Rohn
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For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low…
— Daniel Goleman
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I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go…
— Ross Bleckner
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