Quotes About Attentiveness

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

Listening: You can convey no greater honor than actually hearing what someone has to say.

I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Good service means never having to ask for anything.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The unpardonable sin, in Campbell's book, was the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake.

Listening is talking for him; there's an eloquence to this kind of attentiveness; it's rare, and yet he's generous with it. He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

I pay attention when people get manicures and pedicures. I've always noticed it as a guy. When my wife goes to get her nails done, I'm always very aware of it.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

A good listener is a silent flatterer

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own...

Kendisine söylenen bir ÅŸeyi, daima her ÅŸey olarak görüyor ve bunun kar??s?nda keza mevcut öbür ÅŸeyleri unutuveriyordu

Whenever a clamor is raised, and idle men get to work, it is highly necessary to examine facts carefully, and without unreasonably suspecting men of falshood, to examine, and enquire attentively, under what impressions they act.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.