Quotes About Attentiveness

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

I had never dated someone who wanted to be with me all the time, like he did. He seemed to be attentive to everything about me, noticing what I liked and didn't like, buying me presents. His ambitious, fiery spirit was intoxicating. However, like a drunk person, I was blind to the truth.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.

To the good listener half a word is enough.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Being observant of your surroundings & practicing situational awareness at all times is not being paranoid; it's being cautious.

A la fin du dîner, elle l'avait si religieusement écouté qu'il la trouvait intelligente.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

What are you looking at? Hale asked. Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, 'Just Listen' and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.

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.

Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.

A great listener - that was my talent!

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

Usually, when I give talks, I'm 100% there, 100% present.