Quotes About Attentiveness

Through good listening skills, comes success.

I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound. I began to listen to everything. I probably hoped that after I had heard all the sounds, really heard them and packed them down, deep in my ears, the world would be quiet around me.

You don't have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters.

Attention is an important resource.

far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awke to recognize them.

Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled … or that day will come on you unexpectedly. Luke 21:34

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed, has ever listened like he does.

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

While so much of our self-exploration today is hash-tagged #wellness and performed for all to see, it became obvious to me in the far reach of sacred lands, encircled by campfires and eucalypts, that sometimes the best way to pay attention to country is to keep your mouth shut, open your eyes and just listen.

Pregnancy = "the slow, difficult, and delightful apprenticeship in attentiveness, gentleness, forgetting oneself. The ability to succeed in this path without masochism and without annihilating one's affective, intellectual, and professional personality - such would seem to be the stakes to be won through guiltless maternity.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

atendía la vida como quien come distraído.

se sentaba en una mecedora a vigilarlo, a contemplarlo. A darle brillo de amor con sus ojos alertas.

Tom finds a new skill: ping-pong. Why? Because he does what's put in front of him without judgment.

Always better to be cautious. Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. Shane

There weren't many people on this block, but those who were there regarded me with little more than passing, channel-surfing interest.

Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

lo hizo sumamente bien: nunca estaba demasiado cansado para jugar al escondite, ni demasiado ocupado para inventar historias maravillosas, ni demasiado absorto en sus problemas para no escuchar con toda seriedad una queja. Cada

The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes.