Quotes About Attentiveness

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

Marius, will you stop this game of being weary and bored and show some feeling for once. And put your quizzing glass down, for goodness' sake. I know you can see perfectly well without it.

Of course she'd told him she would, but if the man hadn't registered her sarcasm, then he wasn't making full use of his ears.

And as with prayer, which is a dipping of oneself toward the light, there is a consequence of attentiveness to the grass itself, and the sky itself, and to the floating bird. I too leave the fret and enclosure of my own life. I too dip myself toward the immeasurable.

If she replies, then it's okay to talk to her. If she just smiles, then move on and remember IT'S NO BIG DEAL, or you

sitting, lean forward because it will show that you're listening

So much of being a good interrogator was just knowing how to actively listen to someone

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character.

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

Love begins with listening.

Yes," Jaypaw agreed. "But since you never shut up I can always hear exactly where you are.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.

So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.

When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.