Engrossed Quotes

39 Engrossed quotes by 37 unique authors

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you… — Greg Rusedski
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' — Michael Gove
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from… — Al-Ghazali
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing — Unknown Author
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings,… — Glenn Miller
Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and… — David A. Bednar
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its… — Anne Lamott
We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and… — Henepola Gunaratana
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means… — Iyanla Vanzant
If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things… — John Wooden
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with… — William Osler
What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and… — Truman Capote
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the… — George S. Patton
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking. — Eckhart Tolle
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with… — Cyril Connolly
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching. — Frederick Lenz
When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you… — Meher Baba
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in… — Sathya Sai Baba
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon… — William Hazlitt
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good… — Sherry Turkle
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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