Quotes About Attentiveness

slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll meet that day.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

We have to start listening to nature now.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Listening is more important than talking.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind.

The quality of your awareness determines the quality of life you experience.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

Children observe everything with caution.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time." Mom

The questions involved for the habit of discernment are: • Am I becoming more present to the triune God in all of life? • What is my sense of attentiveness to God? • What is my sense of distraction from God? • What is my belief about God's active involvement in the present moment?

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper.