Absorbs Quotes
60 quotes by 55 authors
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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
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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
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No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
— Robert Aris Willmott
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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
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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
— Jeremy Northam
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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
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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware,…
— Victor Pelevin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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