Quotes About Attentiveness

My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

Are you listening, Buckman? For that is your role in this conversation. You listen.' I

Here we free ourselves of distractions and try to be present in a world that conspires against it

Don't keep interrupting or I'll never finish the story.

He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her

Her eyes went again to the man in black. He had removed his hat when he seated himself and she noticed that his hair was black and curly. He was a lean, powerfully built man, probably larger than he looked while seated. Her eyes trailed again to the bandage. "You…you've hurt yourself!" she exclaimed. "Your shoulder!" Embarrassed

He'd better be one who keeps his eyes from the others or she'll have him over her knee.

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

That Mrs. Munt should be the first to discover the misfortune was not remarkable, for she was so interested in the flats, that she watched their every mutation with unwearying care. In theory she despised them — they took away that old-world look — they cut off the sun — flats house a flashy type of person.

It is enough for you to be watchful and awake. For in this state your eyes will see the Savior.

and he thinks of Argus Panoptes, the watchman of Hera, who had eyeballs all over his head and even on the tips of his fingers, so many eyes that when he closed fifty of them to sleep he held fifty more open to keep watch.

If you pay attention to everything and everyone, you can keep your finger on the pulse and know what's going on. Then you can pull back when you need to or go forward in a certain way.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.