Absorption Quotes

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Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we… — Kevin Malarkey
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a… — Tom Stoppard
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity,… — Alfred North Whitehead
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Walter Lippmann
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. — Paul Reiser
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire… — Tonya Hurley
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the… — Patrick O'Brian
Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining… — Kij Johnson
But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and… — Dennis Lehane
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and… — Brennan Manning
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to… — Ann Brashares
Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was… — Lauren Oliver
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and… — Jack Kerouac
The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of… — Michael Pollan
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected,… — Pope Benedict XVI
We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below… — Marvin Minsky
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete… — Nirmala Srivastava

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