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For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It. -- Daniel Goleman
Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk. -- Ron Franscell
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights. -- Yo-Yo Ma
An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure. -- Jon Meacham
Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious -- E. Lockhart
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Concentrate on your strengths and talents to change your situation, and avoid those pity-parties. Absorbing the blows and present pain is a quality of greatness. Measure yourself against the goals and standards you have set for yourself, rather than comparing yourself to others and feeling discouraged or useless. -- Archibald Marwizi
Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. -- Victor Hugo
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. -- William Arthur Ward
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. -- Elbert Hubbard
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it. -- Timothy Keller
Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it. -- Arthur J. Deikman
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. -- Anthony Burgess
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change. -- Seth Godin
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. -- Hattie McDaniel
The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge -- Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps. -- Louisa May Alcott
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram. -- H. L. Mencken
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. -- Graham Nash
Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden. -- David Rusenko
Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art. -- Tomi Ungerer
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. -- Rudy Rucker
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. -- Matthew Arnold
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. -- Ronald Reagan
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. -- David Baddiel
Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere? -- Svante Arrhenius
In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying. -- Deepak Chopra
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. -- George Eliot
You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience. -- Robert Plant
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. -- Sylvia Nasar
Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion. -- Camille Paglia
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. -- Henry Adams
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. -- Winston Churchill
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. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. -- Shakuntala Devi
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. -- William J. Brennan
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there. -- Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
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. -- Martin Amis
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. -- Romare Bearden
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it. -- Edmund White
The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest? -- Lev Shestov
The pathway to seeing life clearly is not one of absorbing another better explanation, but rather of getting rid of old beliefs and invalid paradigms. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. -- Anne Northup
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. -- Heather Gudenkauf
A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. -- Nell Irvin Painter
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability. -- Honore de Balzac
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen. -- Hallie Burnett
Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty. -- Roman Dmowski
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me. -- Paul Wesley
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense. -- Paul Johnson
For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend. -- Lisa Randall
Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger. -- Tim Kaine
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means. -- George Biddell Airy
Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. -- Mark Twain
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity. -- Daniel H. Pink
It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you are absorbing tremendous power from the teacher. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent. -- Garry Kasparov
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became. -- Andrew Bird
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects. -- Marcus Aurelius
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
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing. -- Winston Churchill
As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You're constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen. -- Charlie Day
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. -- Cheryl Mendelson
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us. -- Thom Yorke
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable. -- Derek Bok
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day. -- Pablo Neruda
The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates. -- Al Gore
Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him. -- Bruce Lee
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce. -- Margaret Mead
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work. -- Rumi
Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart. -- Jane Green
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. -- Ross MacDonald
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light. -- Janette Turner Hospital
~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~ -- Thandie Newton
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence. -- Barbara Marciniak
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires. -- Baroness Orczy
I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it. -- Derek Clayton
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. -- Edward McKendree Bounds

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