Quotes About Attentiveness

is the unseen guest at every table, the silent listener to every conversation"—her mother thereby inferring that she too would be the unseen guest and the silent listener to every conversation.

Prozor took the head off her beer with a swipe of her hand, then licked at her palm with an unhurried catlike attentiveness.

A true watchdog sleeps with all his senses or the very edge of wakefulness. And when he wakens, he does not waken as do we humans;—yawningly, dazedly, drunk with slumber. At one moment he is sound asleep. At the next he is broad awake; with every faculty alert.

if you want to be understood ...Listen.

Try to be on every pitch, try to be in the moment, and try to think every ball's going to come at you, no matter if it's not, but trying to get that mindset going.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

I try to concentrate when I'm in the box.

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.

I have always been aware of my surroundings.

I see people crossing the road without looking, because the lights say that you can. They're acting as if there's never been a police chase, never been someone looking at their phone, or a drunk driver. When I see people like that I can see that they've not got survival skills. That's where me and a few other people differ.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

It has been said that 90 percent of people seem to live 90 percent of their lives on cruise control, which is to be unconscious.

Servants think about their work, not what others are doing.

Still, she would rather be on the lookout, sharp, overreacting, than to be caught asleep and dull-witted. When the bomb came to rip her apart, she would at least see it coming. She wanted to die on her toes if she had to die at all.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.