Absorbs Quotes

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of… — Agnes Repplier
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. — Robert Aris Willmott
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him… — Walt Whitman
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. — Jeremy Northam
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am closest of all to happinessâ€”although I wonâ€™t attempt to define just what it isâ€”when I turn away from the window and am aware,… — Victor Pelevin
He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at… — Gerhard Tersteegen
The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form… — Maria Montessori
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. — Jean Shinoda Bolen
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will… — William Howard Schuman
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes… — Marilyn Ferguson
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the… — Duane Elgin
Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself. — Nicole Williams
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name… — Walt Whitman
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… — Cyril Connolly
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that… — Edward Said
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think… — John Berger

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