Absorption Quotes

91 quotes by 83 authors

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a… — Oliver Sacks
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter… — Stephen King
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is… — Rollo May
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of… — Irving Howe
Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a… — Lyman Spitzer
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter. — Cole Weston
I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has… — Michael Myers
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure… — Hyman Minsky
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no… — John Dewey
Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred… — Mark Helprin
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart — Uthman ibn Affan
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area… — Judith Curry
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart;… — Ibn Ata Allah
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. — Wilfrid
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. — Andrew Comiskey
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. — Nikki Gemmell

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