Engrossed Quotes
39 Engrossed quotes by 37 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
— Ian Mcewan
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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
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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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