#absorb

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. ↗

— Chris Barber

#introverted #life #music #self-absorbed #their

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#interest #self-absorbtion #vanity #ego

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. ↗

— Tadao Ando

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Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. ↗

— Chris Evert

#certainly #giving #player #relationships #self-absorbed

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. ↗

— Chris Evert

#arrogant #champion #inflexible #kind #self-absorbed

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#exceed #existed #had #how #make

She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption. ↗

— Lan Samantha Chang

#self-absorbtion #change