Best Osmosis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile.”

London White Noise Osmosis White Knowledge

Book:Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "I'm going to learn it by osmosis.”

Algebra Osmosis

Book:Shadows

Source: Shadows

“I don’t want to be infected with somebody’s photosynthesis as my osmosis is advancing from metamorphosis to trypanosomiasis which is a crisis – so said the analysis of the diagnosis conducted by Francis.”

Humor Analysis Diagnosis Photosynthesis Osmosis

Book:Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.”

Humor Know Osmosis

Author:Natalie Blitt

“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

Country Able Lasts Generations Sitting Gains Radio Buttons Banging Osmosis

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis.”

Happens Motivational Osmosis

Author:Jon Jones

“What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.”

People Thinking Knows World Long Two Matter Facts Moving Lying Found Deals Rate Newspapers Occasions Acquire Imaginative Headlines Osmosis Newspaper Headlines

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Writing May Soul Dream Spirit Path Generations Magic Lucky Unique Inspired Library Driven Clever Setting Settings Wander Your Soul Volume Downloads Osmosis

Author:Arthur Plotnik

“I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. The more material that you have and understand and have a going in, then the more complex your character and the understanding of your character will be.”

Thinking Way Character Stuff Understanding Materials Complexes Best Way Osmosis

Author:Shailene Woodley

“My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.”

Long Space Long Time Tradition Backgrounds Oral Tradition Osmosis

Author:Alan Garner

“I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.”

Thinking Want Writing House Language Building Comprehension Earthquakes Piers Osmosis Building Houses

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.”

Mean Stills Facts Reality Process Secret Mere Invention Mediums Data Poetic Capture Delicate Catching Osmosis

Author:Salvador Dali

“Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.”

People Produce Directors Appreciate Direct Asking Producers Offering Asking Questions Osmosis

Author:Malik Yoba

“I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.”

Taken Generations Feminism Essentials Something New Breakdown Osmosis

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.”

Ifs Book Night House Winter Shelves Collectors Rainy Winter Night Osmosis

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.”

Thinking Years Shows Voice Acting Years Ago Performances Tales Producers Endeavor Episodes Rabbits Roger Voice Over Osmosis

Author:Joel Silver

“And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.”

Enough Together Outsiders Sociology Mystic Osmosis

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.”

People Ifs Knows Made Done Happens Stuff White Class Cases Middle Males Versions Middle Class Passive Coincidence Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Stuff Happens Upper Middle Class Osmosis

Author:Tim Wise

“I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.”

Ifs Knows Men Trying Mind Firsts Hard Choices Left Speak Accepting Know How Opposites Accidents Do You Know Atoms Strain Osmosis

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.”

Sometimes Might Clothes Workout Osmosis

Author:Kate Walsh

“Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.”

“I learned from admiration and osmosis.”

Admiration Osmosis

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.”

Mind Form Pay Watches Critics Reviews Just Do It Osmosis

Author:Holland Taylor

“Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.”

Together Force Week Television Adventure Sitting Scripts Explorers Sitting Down Osmosis

Author:Angela Cartwright