W. H. Auden Quotes

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Whenever I am applying myself to something, I can't help but be part of it.

I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.

When you have fun doing something, you should immerse yourself in it completely.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

You can take your play seriously as long as you seriously play.

For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

Find something you're passionate about, and focus on it.

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.

I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

I love being completely immersed in everything I do.

What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.

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.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.