It's getting to the point where one can absorb oneself in "media" all day long without ever stumbling upon one single idea with which one can disagree.
The keyword which unites all is art the art of cultivating, producing, marketing science as a tentative art, on a daily basis, which makes it possible to understand, from its analytical procedures, parts of reality and the art absorbed in learning and which expresses all that we are and what moves our lives and which we do not completely understand.
He had also become absorbed in music, learning to play five instruments.
It means going from what has been the norm—"sitting back" and absorbing information at best to "leaning in:" learning, adding the right expertise to the board, asking the right questions and being trained on the implications of cyber-risk gone wrong in their enterprises.
The trip has ended; I am still suffering from jet-lag in my New York apartment, well aware that I will continue absorbing and learning in the months ahead.
Here's an unsettling thought: The hardest lessons we learn in life (and maybe the only lessons we truly absorb) are those learned too late.
In 1923, the family returned to Sicily, and the boy grew up in a village, absorbing elders' stories and learning music.
But for the Carolina Panthers to go further, Newton will have to reduce the number of bad throws (17 interceptions) he made last season, to limit the contact he absorbs, and to learn to stay in the pocket more.
Often in the N.F.L., rookies gain the chance to absorb and learn.
Apprenticed to one of the city's leading masons from the age of 16, he displayed notable draughtsman skills, and was soon absorbing himself in architectural treatises and learning as much as he could about surveying, building materials and town planning.
