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Absorb ideas from every source. -- Thomas A. Edison
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. -- Bruce Lee
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why. -- Orison Swett Marden
Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. -- Dan Inosanto
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect. -- Beth Moore
Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work. -- Nikky Finney
Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you. -- George Clinton
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. -- Wilfrid Laurier
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. -- Chetan Bhagat
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. -- Dave Barry
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. -- Theodor Adorno
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. -- Ann Oakley
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. -- Herman Hesse
Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss. -- Martha Beck
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. -- Emile Durkheim
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. -- Toni Morrison
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry. -- Billy Graham
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it. -- Mary Cassatt
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. -- Neneh Cherry
Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world. -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. -- Joshua Chamberlain
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. -- Audrey Hepburn
Eating apples is good on so many levels. There's fiber in the skin that's really good for you. It helps with digestion and helps you absorb all the nutrients of everything you've eaten that day. Apples are a really good thing. -- Rebecca Romijn
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. -- George F. Kennan
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. -- Mike Rounds
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. -- Victor Hugo
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. -- Brian Eno
Winners have to absorb losses. -- Ice T
I'm somebody who can absorb a lot. -- Sandra Bernhard
One should absorb the color of life. -- Oscar Wilde
Fear is something I try not to absorb. -- Mark E. Smith
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -- Aristotle
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. -- Roger Ebert
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. -- Tom Wicker
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently. -- Richard Brookhiser
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. -- Tom Waits
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Alan Perlis
Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. -- Don DeLillo
The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure. -- Morton Blackwell
Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. -- Pythagoras
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. -- Anais Nin
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames. -- Martin Freeman
Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn. -- Alan King
To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person. -- Giacomo Casanova
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. -- Andrew S. Gilbert
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same -- Leonardo da Vinci
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning. -- Buddy Rich
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it. -- Yip Man
I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain. -- Henry Rono
The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it. -- William M. Evarts
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. -- Lucille Ball
If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it. -- D. H. Lawrence
The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. -- Ernest Moniz
Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things. -- Michelle Ryan
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. -- Maya Angelou
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. -- Alvin Toffler
Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic -- Sark
Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves. -- John C. Maxwell
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform. -- Pythagoras
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. -- Sonny Rollins
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed -- Hillary Clinton
Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it. -- Orson Welles
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. -- Maria Montessori
I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear. -- Arsene Wenger
You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving. -- John Keats
Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia. -- Basil Bunting
Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. -- Conrad Aiken
How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind? -- Sandra Bernhard
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. -- Wilferd Peterson
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the seaâ??s consoling silence. -- Cristina Garcia
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. -- Lance Armstrong
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. -- Charles Stross
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. -- Elbert Hubbard
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. -- Oscar Wilde
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. -- Michael Chabon
You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. -- Robert Frost
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained. -- Paul Prudhomme
The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. -- Sarah Palin
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. -- Franz Kafka
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. -- Red Auerbach
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. -- J. C. Macaulay
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. -- Edward Hirsch
They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. -- Rob Lowe
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure. -- Evan Esar
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost. -- Timothy Keller
Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night. -- Judd Apatow
Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours. -- Hal Higdon
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. -- Timothy Keller
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. -- William Osler
A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it? -- Jonathan Gottschall
Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music. -- Tom Harrell
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us. -- S. I. Hayakawa
Once you open your heart, you will start to absorb many things that come from the source - from Tao itself. -- Henry Chang
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. -- Horace Silver
Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly. -- George Coyne
Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit." -- Douglas Rushkoff
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. -- Martin Scorsese
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. -- Nicole Kidman
The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by. -- Tom Waits
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
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. -- Gail Caldwell
I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music. -- Ayshay
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. -- Swami Vivekananda
I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution. -- Janet Reno
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
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news. -- Frank Rich
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
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. -- Etty Hillesum
I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around. -- Robbie Lawler

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