Try to be a filter, not a sponge.
I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.
My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.
Take you me for a sponge?
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
I do not drink more than a sponge.
I drink no more than a sponge.
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.