Quotes About Attentiveness

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Every telecast, I still have butterflies and a little bit of nerves. But I think the nerves help. It elevates my attentiveness.

I am listening," he said. "I just hear the things you're not saying.

Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. The unsuccessful interviewer—and I have sat in or listened to enough interviews to know, unfortunately, and disappointingly, how common they are—does not.

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's. His understanding often astonished her. But did he notice the flowers? No. Did he notice the view? No. Did he even notice his own daughter's beauty, or whether there was pudding on his plate or roast beef? He would sit at table with them like a person in a dream.

I noticed." Lazaro slowly approached her near the bed. "I should be focused on a thousand other things right now. Instead, here I am. Noticing everything about you, Melena.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

To listen with presence means there is nothing else in the world going on but the person in front of you and what they have to say. When you ask, you need to listen to the person's every word and be present, and show you are present, and then and only then can you make the right response to their ask.

To listen well is to figure out what's on someone's mind and demonstrate that you care enough to want to know," states Kate Murphy in You're Not Listening: What You're Missing & Why It Matters.

But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentiveness of eyebrow pencils is perhaps a picture of the very sort of bodily care our embodied God would have us cultivate, weather in illness or wellness, whether our bodies are in the throes of ecstasy or the throes of pain.

As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the effort: The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us.

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

had considered it a little while, she said to the tiny woman, And you keep watch over this every day? And she cast down her eyes,

She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn't remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life.

May we all live up to his example; may we all try to be the one who hears a new

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

constant vigilance

It's better to care too much than too little. Every single time.

And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn't come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy