The PPP is not just a political party. This is our life.
When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.
It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.
Whatever you do... put your heart and soul into it!
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.
I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.
I'm deeply involved in big problems.
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.
You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.
I don't care if I'm in too deep.
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.
I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.
Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.
I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
I like to work long-term on projects. It's fun to go in and out and get in there and do something and leave it behind, but to me, the real satisfaction is doing five years on a show, where you're really just up to your eyes in it. It's part of your life. That's what makes me the happiest.
I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.
You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can become deeply involving for an audience.
