1.
My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.
Michael Jordan
2.
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
4.
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
John Ciardi
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Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Eminem
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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
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
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Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted
John Muir
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
Gore Vidal
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American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.
Tomi Ungerer
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The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.
Robert M. Hensel
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A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
Itzhak Perlman
16.
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
Ben Ames Williams
18.
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?
Tea Obreht
19.
I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.
Aeriel Miranda
21.
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
22.
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
Douglas Adams
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Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
LeVar Burton
25.
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
Jeremy Northam
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When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
Ira Sachs