Top 34 Be A Sponge Quotes
#1. God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
Henry Ward Beecher
#2. My suggestion for the young graduate is to go work for someone else and be a sponge, soaking up all the knowledge you can about the profession before heading out on your own.
Keith Granet
#3. 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
#4. Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.
Simon Cowell
#5. Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.
Jerry Colangelo
#6. Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything ... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
Bobbi Brown
#7. One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
April Bloomfield
#9. I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.
Scott Tolzien
#10. Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.
Mark Parker
#11. I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.
James Wolpert
#12. A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.
Allen Johnson
#13. New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
Nancy Gibbs
#14. Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.
Reiko Saibara
#16. Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.
Stephen Chbosky
#17. I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It's as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, Fuck this. I'm going to Los Angeles!
David Sedaris
#18. When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.
Jan Brett
#19. The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.
Janet Frame
#20. Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
Robin Cousins
#21. Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all.
-Cassandra
Aeschylus
#23. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Steven Spielberg
#24. I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.
Rashida Jones
#25. I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.
Lake Bell
#26. Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.
Adrian Lyne
#27. Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Harry Houdini
#28. I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
Lee Trevino
#29. I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
Thomas A. Edison
#30. When I get too old to write, give me chocolate covered sponge toffee and a glass Anisovaya vodka. Sit me beside the Atlantic and let me watch the Milky Way rise over the starlit ocean. I won't be any trouble.
S.E. Lund
#31. Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Jim Rohn
#32. I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
Jodie Whittaker
#33. You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.
Jimmy Smits
#34. I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
Win Butler
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