The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you’re in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you’re not going to have much leeway.
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.
There is immense power in acknowledging the contribution of every human being in our life. One must constantly make the effort to absorb this power by getting the blessings of all human beings.
People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they’re one with me.
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind of authority and prominence and you absorb it differently.
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.
It takes time for people to absorb change.
In 2001, when the economy was strong, the country was able to absorb substantial deficit spending in the wake of September 11 without constricting the Federal Reserve’s flexibility to ease interest rates.
From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it’s encountered.
Fiber and other nondigestible carbs are bulky and tend to slow digestion, which, in turn, eases the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. When glucose enters the bloodstream more slowly, cells are better able to burn it for energy.
Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others… I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens… I adopted them passionately.
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.
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.
One meal option is a piece of poached chicken the size of your fist with a green salad sprinkled with lemon juice, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and celery. Another is a cup and a half of quinoa with minced veggies, all cooked at once so the quinoa absorbs the nutrients.
Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it’s just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
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.
The best way to achieve a great style without a blow-dryer is, after washing your hair, take a towel and flip your head upside down, wrapping it up in a twisted towel for 15 minutes. Once you take it down, a lot of the excess water will have been absorbed by the towel.
And I don’t have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It’s almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company.
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.
Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool – for every role you play you’ve got to absorb that character’s motives and justifications.
Fear is something I try not to absorb.
We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.
I always soak in a bath with Epsom salts for a minimum of 20 minutes to absorb the magnesium once I get home.
I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you’ve never read before; you explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields, and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you’ve done it for 20 years.
For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.
Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe.
