I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
From what I've read, CM Punk is like a sponge when it comes to training.
I learned things by being in Lester Flatts' band, and I learned things by playing with Johnny Cash, and I learned from Pop Staples. I'm a sponge.
I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.
I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.
The windows need washing.
She arrived in Washington to take her place in the Senate. After looking about, she observed:
As an actor, I do not come with preconceived notions. I am like clay that can be moulded or like a sponge that can absorb things. I do what the director wants me to do.
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
I am a sponge. I don't write things down.
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
To be honest, I'm like a sponge so my inspiration and influences really can come from anywhere.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.
A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
You are like a sponge when you are young.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge.