Absorbing Information Quotes

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

Reading means borrowing.

I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

Take you me for a sponge?