Quotes About Attentiveness

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

The art of being a good listener.

Train yourself to listen attentively when other people are speaking.

Usually, what we call a "good listener" is someone with skillfully polished indifference.

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.

I abhor the man whose first remark after being introduced is "How warm, or how cold, it is." It proves either that he is a fool, or that he thinks I am one. This one expatiated on the weather. "Insufferable" I said, which might be applied to both himself and the heat.

O GOD, enthroned in heaven, I long to have my eyes fixed on you as the psalmist did. Draw me to you, Lord, as I lift my eyes to your throne for your mercy and grace today. Keep me from distractions that would take my eyes from you and make my focus fuzzy. And give me attentiveness to your Holy Spirit's "signals" in my heart and life today.

when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

If I had to answer the question, What is the most important ability for the actor? . . . the answer would emphatically be listening. Lest there be some misunderstanding, let me define what I mean by listening. I am talking about listening with all the senses.

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.

The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.

They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it.

A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

When she didn't continue, he shrugged. Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.