Attentive Quotes

137 Attentive quotes by 119 unique authors

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this… — Ibn Ata Allah
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive… — Vasily Grossman
Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in… — Ken Cohen
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others… — Isocrates
I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet,… — John Dufresne
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has… — Colleen Houck
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly… — Henry Fielding
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. — Kirk Douglas
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will… — Joshua Reynolds
It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark… — Bryan Stevenson
Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. — Margaret J. Wheatley
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. — William Hamilton Maxwell
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no… — Jonathan Safran Foer
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. — Dale Carnegie
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will… — Dale Carnegie
Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a… — Jean Klein
There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a… — Margaret J. Wheatley
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being… — Rodney Yee
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy… — Unknown Author
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. — Thornton Wilder
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is.… — Soren Kierkegaard

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