Quotes About Attentiveness

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Sometimes it's the smallest and most innocent things you have to watch out for

Listening is the highest form of courtesy.' When you show interest, understanding and response to someone, you are giving that person a rare and valuable gift.

Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid's cheeks turn pink. He'd forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women could be.

And then he perceived her politeness or kindness or even her vague responsiveness as interest,

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.

Mrs. Norris

After lots of lectures, warnings, punishments and so on, Eddy had decided to watch his step for a while.

He casts a sheep's eye at the wench.

Understanding engenders care.

Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

She doesn't like looking straight at things. She's a peripheral person.

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

kufu means, as I have already explained, being without any suki (opening or flaw in terms of swordsmanship) or yudan (carelessness) and to become the thing itself.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Show appropriate levels of emotional reaction. If you're able to do this properly, this lets them know that you care about what they're talking about. Also, what they are saying is as important to you as it is to them.

Because you are too eager to be properly patient," he said flippantly. "You're too proud to listen properly. And you're too clever by half. That's the worst of it.