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For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities. (Quote by - Daniel Goleman)
Coach Gruden really likes to prepare for what's going on now this season and I can understand that. Right now, I'm just trying to do my best by watching and absorbing what's going on. (Quote by - Jared Allen)
Life without absorbing occupation is hell. (Quote by - Elbert Green Hubbard)
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never. (Quote by - Edna Ferber)
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus. (Quote by - Tom Wilkinson)
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. (Quote by - Jean Paul Sartre)
Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs ranging between 20 and 50 percent after absorbing the costs of the initial implementation period. (Quote by - Beth Robertson)
Proper dispersion of IR pigments is critical to optimizing IR energy reflectance. Likewise, contamination from other IR absorbing pigments must be avoided. This manufacturing control is paramount to the success of the coating. Our chemists and technical support staff are ready to work with our customers to identify target solar reflectance needs and design the best solution for the application, often times this includes a custom color match. (Quote by - Liz Campbell)
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out, and to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand. (Quote by - Henry James)
Other storms coming in north of it have been absorbing this moisture and bring it to the West Coast. That's why there has been so much precipitation in the Valley. (Quote by - David Spector)
He needs to maximize his savings for his own retirement as well as his daughter's education, yet his debt is absorbing 43 percent of his monthly income. (Quote by - Ron Pearson)
A dark-colored home absorbs as much as 90 percent of the solar radiation that strikes it, and even white walls can absorb solar radiation. By reflecting this infrared radiation rather than absorbing it, the Cool Wall™ coatings dramatically reduce the load on a home's air-conditioning system. And because they are reflective, they are less prone to fading – even dark colors stay darker longer than conventional paint technologies. (Quote by - Jay Haines)
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)