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Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. -- Julia Cameron
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. -- Julia Cameron
I was too absorbed to be responsive -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them. -- Donald Davis
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. -- J. I. Packer
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love. -- Valerie June
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing. -- Mia Wasikowska
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. -- Seth Klarman
Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it. -- Milton Avery
There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit... -- Karen Karbo
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. -- Chris Barber
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. -- Joseph J. Romm
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. -- Kanye West
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. -- Anthony Burgess
Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. -- Nicholas Kristof
What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. -- Glen Duncan
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. -- James Taylor
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again. -- Zoroaster
Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family. -- Wes Fesler
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. -- Germaine Greer
There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him. -- Rick Warren
I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. -- River Phoenix
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. -- Franz Kafka
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. -- Stephen Schwartz
Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed. -- Radhanath Swami
Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good. -- Joe Rogan
Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated. -- Donald Barthelme
I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting. -- Ansel Elgort
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. -- Alan Watts
Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too. -- Veronica Roth
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated. -- Prince Charles
I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. -- Saint Francis de Sales
When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. -- Helen Wills
We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich. -- Andy Stanley
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, -- Jeaniene Frost
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. -- William R. Bradford
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. -- Joseph R. Bartlett
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. -- Max Born
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit -- Aristotle
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. -- Kim Edwards
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. -- Chetan Bhagat
We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. -- Jonathan Gottschall
I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed. -- Rush Limbaugh
American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel. -- Dennis Miller
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. -- Mehmet Oz
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. -- Walt Whitman
I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood. -- Wayne Dyer
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. -- Miles Franklin
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied. -- Stewart Brand
Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content. -- Chin-Ning Chu
Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. -- Richard G. Scott
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. -- Eric Hoffer
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. -- Helen Oyeyemi
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. -- Pierre Loti
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. -- Daniel Kahneman
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness. -- Amit Ray
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it." -- Donella Meadows
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. -- Donella Meadows
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. -- Ogyu Sorai
I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that. -- John Bolton
I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. -- Charles Darwin
It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world. -- Daniel Tammet
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. -- Charles Dickens
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. -- Adam Clarke
Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well. -- Harold Bloom
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. -- Mary Parker Follett
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. -- Theodor Adorno
Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula. -- Stephen Hunter
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. -- Leo Rosten
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. -- E. L. Doctorow
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. -- William Damon
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. -- Charles Duhigg
A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture. -- Saru Singhal
Living in process is being open to insight and encounter. Creativity is becoming intensively absorbed in the process and giving it form. -- Susan Smith
Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed. -- Carolyn Murphy
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed. -- Rob Chapman
I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true. -- Molly Crabapple
As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time. -- George W. Bush
Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. -- Victor Hugo
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. -- Abraham Maslow
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. -- Jasper Fforde
At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable. -- Pope Francis
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. -- David Christian
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. -- Chris Evert
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs. -- Bill Shorten
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. -- Gautama Buddha
You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. -- Nigella Lawson
You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. -- Nigella Lawson
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. -- T. S. Eliot
A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed. -- Ida Tarbell
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became. -- Tullian Tchividjian
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually. -- Brenda Ueland
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. -- Jean Paul
I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption. -- Anonymous
They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been. -- Amy Tanner
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. -- Arthur Christiansen
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for -- Chantal Kreviazuk
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. -- Pam Gems
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair. -- Elizabeth Prettejohn
Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Sleep is extremely important to me - I need to rest and recover in order for the training I do to be absorbed by my body -- Usain Bolt
The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men. -- Neil Drumming
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. -- Beck
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. -- Yo-Yo Ma

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