Quotes About Attentiveness

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusiastic or attentive than he could sustain regardless of his mood and to not talk to people if his only reason to was because he felt lonely or bored

I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

there is a secret to silence-active listening.

Steele could be so completely still, it felt like he could disappear. His energy would get so low that you could forget he was in your space. He never missed anything when he was like that. He took in the smallest detail.

I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don't care a bit what you're saying.

Only then did Eragon again become aware of Saphira and Glaedr pressing against his consciousness, watching with steadfast attentiveness every thought that flickered through his mind. Both of the dragons were as tense as Eragon had ever felt them. If he were to poke Saphira, he guessed she would be so startled, she would twist herself in circles. And if I were to poke you, nothing would be left but a smear , she commented. Eragon smiled.

the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. He listened the way a cactus drinks rain. In

He listened the way a cactus drinks rain—every word a precious drop in a world frugal with wonder.

really involved in whatever you are doing. Experience it fully with all of your senses. Be in the experience of the present moment and not lost in your thoughts.

But it is part of the business of the writer—as I see it—to examine attitudes, to go beneath the surface, to tap the source.

The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not he had ever, really, been present at his life. For if he had ever been present, then he was present still, and his world would open up before him.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man