Absorb Quotes

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On the release of his 2007 album "Hudson River Wind Meditations": It`s geared up to help to you to focus. I call it centering. I use the music all the time. I leave it on all day because living in the city it has an intriguing ability to absorb the outside sound and kind of weave that into itself somehow. So a car horn or a fire engine - all this background noise - just somehow filters into it in a nice way. I`m not sure that I know why, but I know that it does that.

- Lou Reed

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

- Bruce Lee

You need to become a good listener. As you`re working, you hear someone else`s lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

- Jacqueline Bisset

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn`t have one for best actor.

- Julia Roberts

It`s hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for Rent because the rest of the country doesn`t know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of Rent, and I`m on the subway, it doesn`t matter. It`s an exaggerated sense of fame. - on the international `Rent` craze.

- Idina Menzel

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what`s going on around them, it makes them think.

- Thom Yorke

I think maybe since there isn`t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don`t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

- Thom Yorke

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

- David Mamet

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

- William Hurt

(on Detroit`s large population of people in poverty) When I come back and come back and come back I`m making a statement that this is for real. You`re about to listen, absorb and to challenge yourself to move in a positive direction. Strength, that`s what we`re after.

- Bill Cosby

A long and difficult settlement looms. For Houston or Baton Rouge, these are huge numbers of people for them. They are desperately poor, seriously depressed, lost individuals with nothing. They are going to be hard to absorb. It`s an enormous burden for a city to take it on. After the shock and warmth and compassion wear off, these refugees are going to have to find a way to become new citizens in these new places.

- James Gregory

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

- Mike Royko

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

- Pearl S. Buck

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

- Roger Ebert

The Classical principle is not that everybody comes away happy; but that everybody comes out thinking, which is a validation of ourselves as human beings, as opposed to the animals that go to a rave or a hip-hop concert, and just dance away in some kind of flagellant hysteria. The Classical principle is that you go and you sit and absorb the events of the play, And you think about it afterwards.

- Robert Beltran

A lot of it is being done in commercials and music videos. I`ve never done them, but I think that those are forms in which cross-cutting and parallel action are absolutely standard and accepted as a mainstream language. Film-makers like myself enjoy the fruits of that experimentation and absorption by the mainstream. I think people`s capacity to absorb a fractured mise-en-scene is extraordinary now compared to forty years ago.

- Christopher Nolan

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it`s more or less inevitable.

- Graham Chapman

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world`s variety and uniqueness.

- Maya Angelou

My father`s family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. It was as if the world could turn against them at any moment.

- Ang Lee

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

- Aristotle

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it`s important that we use that voice wisely.

- Roberta Flack

That`s the best thing about writing, when you`re in that zone, you`re porous, ready to absorb the solution.

- Michael Chabon

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

- Felix Adler

Our economy is doing fine, so we can absorb the impact, ... Nobody (in the U.S. economy) is being hurt right now.

- Arthur Mitchell

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

- William Osler

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

- Adam J. Smith

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

- Adam Spence

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

- Al Gonzales

You don`t want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren`t positive, you`re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you`ve got a shortage somewhere.

- Alan Sandals

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

- Alana Beard

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

- Alex Kogan

It is not Kafka`s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

- Alexandra Starr

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

- Ali Fabbro

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

- Allen Harris

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he`s been the greatest thing that`s happened to me.

- Allison Duncan

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

- Amber Chia

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn`t realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

- Amy Camp

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we`ve had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

- Amy Dutton

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

- Andre Cook

Israel`s capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

- Andrew Spence

Community-based enrollment is the true success story of New York`s program, and it has changed people`s perceptions of Medicaid to be health insurance, not welfare, ... Without it, enrollment will shut down. The social service offices will not be able to absorb the crush of people they`ll get, and a lot of people will just give up if they have to go to those offices again.

- Andy Brenner

I thought we had parity in a lot of areas of the game but it`s the Crusaders` ability to absorb pressure and react - three of their four tries were from turnovers - that`s really disheartening when you are in control of the ball.

- Anne Braden

The current, rather mild U.S. recovery has been driven by asset appreciation/consumption and not employment or capex (capital expenditure) growth. Future growth is dependent on additional asset appreciation in real estate and stocks if Asia continues to absorb much of our investment and many of our jobs.

- Anne Lang

We`re not sure what the state is going to do, they can meet back in the legislative session in the winter and pass mandates that we have to be able to absorb, its going to take a little time to accomplish what we want here

- Arturo Freeman

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

- Oscar Wilde

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day`s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

- William Osler