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Quotes About Attentiveness

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When people are talking listen completely. Don't be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. ... And always think of other people.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.
~ Ernest Hemingway
looked at the tires carefully, looking for cuts or stone bruises. Everything seemed in good condition. It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Beth was always warm and interested in what you were saying. She made you feel like you were the only person in the world she cared about.
~ Andrew Klavan
she was on the telephone, wearing that expression of disinterested attentiveness that betokens a person on hold.
~ Robert Galbraith
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.
~ Robert Greene
Listening is a master skill for personal and professional excellence. Leaders listen.
~ Robin S. Sharma
You could hear a mouse fart.
~ Rodman Philbrick
he could hear faint sounds from their
~ Lee Child
Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.
~ Linda Dillow
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
What you are looking for is what you are looking with.
~ Ernest Holmes
Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.
~ Rolf Potts
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
~ Mark Spitz
Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, drže?i nedoli?nom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uo?ljivo je kako takvi ljudi vlastitu sudbinu posmatraju na na?in na koji ve?ina posmatra kišni dan.
~ Alessandro Baricco
You be up on everything, other hoes aint ever on it.
~ Drake
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
~ Allan Kaprow
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
She's the kind of person who looks at you when you're talking and asks you questions as if she really cares.
~ Jo Knowles
Thought One of the most important ways we can show our respect and love is by listening carefully when another person speaks. When we interrupt, no matter how important our contribution may seem, we're damming up the flow of energy and giving the other person the nonverbal message that their thoughts and feelings are less important than our own.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.
~ Anna Kavan