Mind Like A Sponge Quotes & Sayings

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight. — Guy Fraser-Sampson

I'm not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity. — Jean-Claude Biver

It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup. — Helena Rubinstein

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint. — Oscar Wilde

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge. — Robert M. Hensel

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything. — Bethany Mota

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that. — Demetri Martin

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art. — Gore Vidal

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying. — Abdul Qadeer Khan

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. — Shia Labeouf

Take one child, limitless dreams, unlimited potential, pure innocence and a sponge-like brain. Force them by law to spend at least ten years of their precious youth being force-fed the most useless information. Constantly reminding them that they're only as good as their grades in a system that teaches useless mind-numbing subjects and claims to confirm our intellect with repetition and random memory tests. I didn't give a flying fuck about the square route of the number nine or the speed of sound; I just so desperately wanted to know the basics. Happiness, love, the things that we need in our lives; the things that help us to find confidence in ourselves, our ability and our dreams. — K.A. Hill

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me. — Gregory Harrison

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental. — Wyndham Lewis

A fertile, open mind is like a sponge. Every individual, event and episode in one's life is a learning experience. It's up to you what you want to emulate; the good or the bad, as your personality is constantly evolving. The innocence of a baby, the selfless love of a pet dog, or a stray comment from a stranger - all these can have an everlasting effect and help to mould your character. It's these incidents and experiences, episodes and the people you meet along the way, that weave the tapestry of your life. — Pratima Kapur