Immersing Yourself Quotes:

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Love, Money, Losing Someone, Losing Money, Immersing Yourself

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.

- John Dyer Baizley

source: "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

topic: Art, School, Unique, Drafting, Academic Standards

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And a huge facet of our psychic and existential make-ups is the things we're not proud of, things we didn't ask to experience, the scenarios we flubbed.

- Joshua Mohr

topic: Immersing Yourself

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

- David McCullough

topic: Reading, Culture, Immersing Yourself

Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.

- John Mellencamp

topic: Real, Important, Retail, Record Stores, Immersing Yourself

There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

- Dominic Cooper

topic: Jobs, Character, Numbers, Immersing Yourself

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

- Sinead O'Connor

topic: Song, Chicago, Kind, Chicago Blues, Immersing Yourself

Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.

- Michael Ellsberg

topic: Sports, Dog, Song, Ted Talks, Immersing Yourself