Quotes About Attentiveness

Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person.

Listening is about being present, not just being quiet.

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

Presently, I was aware that Jeeves was with me. I hadn't heard him come in, but you often don't with Jeeves. He just streams silently from spot A to spot B, like some gas.

They have been so much concerned with what they are going to say next that they do not keep their ears open. … Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.

Para ser interesante, hay que interesarse.

permanent state of high alert.

When people talk, listen completely.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

He read with a similar relaxed, long-haul attentiveness. We

Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.

When you listen for the words of God and follow them, you will hear more. When you do not listen or do not follow, you will hear less and less until finally you may not hear at all.

Thare are people who dont do ennything but watch their simptoms. I have seen dogs ackt just az sensible, i hav seen a rat terrier watch the simptoms ov a knot hole, in a board fence, all day, for sum rat tew cum out, but no rat didn't cum out.

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich

I didn't love Jane in that swept-away sense. I didn't put her needs first or think about trying to surprise or delight her. I didn't take time out of my daily life to find that "special something" for her.

Xeno couldn't manage too much nearness. He was solitary and introverted, with an enthusiasm that people mistook for sociability. He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind, and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

From Noah Baumbach, I learned to have a strict no cell phone policy on set. There is nothing that bums you out more than looking over and seeing somebody on their smartphone, and that goes for actors and everyone else.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . ." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.