Absorbing Quotes

I'm sort of an osmotic fellow.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

I think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, "How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?"

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

It's all been very interesting.

I like to run around. I'm enjoying traveling. I absorb as much as I can, and I get to go to beautiful places that I don't know if I would ever visit.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

It has all been most interesting.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and actors - as much as I can.

The Rock taught me you don't always have to talk or move all the time. You can just stand there and soak it in. Let the crowd just do what they do.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone else do the talking. Where we absorb rather than emit. By occasionally isolating ourselves, we can more successfully, more generously, socialise.

When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.