Quotes About Attentiveness

To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active, and Dottie had really listened.

To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active

and she seemed to really listen, I could see her listening, and she responded exactly right somehow. I cannot remember what she said, but I remember thinking, Oh, she is right here with me.

Awareness: Every Pore of the Skin Has to Become an Eye

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

But if you treat it courteously, brush it from time to time, and don't mess it up with mud or spill coffee on it, it should be fine.

Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.

White-collar professionals also use prescription drugs such as Provigil, Ritalin, and Adderall to boost their intelligence and attentiveness.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

To be gentle is to understand that life is a journey deserving constant attentiveness. Therefore it is gentleness that allows us to finish a marathon, not putting pressure on ourselves to immediately think about the next one. Gentleness is "just doing it" in such a way that we can do it again and again.

it lies in the capacity to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your larger purpose in the world.

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one's own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.

The answer must be, I think, that the beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.