Quotes with absorbed

  • 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.

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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Carolyn Murphy 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
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Leo Rosten Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Arthur Christiansen 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
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Adam Clarke However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Pearl S. Buck I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Charles Darwin It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Barry Pepper It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way. ...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Victor Hugo 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
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bridget Riley Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Beth Henley There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do? because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bill Shorten 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
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Carolyn Murphy When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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