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Quotes About Receptivity

As for all your latest Mayan discoveries and poems, I want to hear every word of it if you want to transmit it, or tell it when we meet, but don't expect me to get excited by anything anymore.
~ Jack Kerouac
A ju? sama dyspozycja kogoÅ›, kto jest nastawiony na odbiór, sprawia, ?e Bóg widzi mnie jako oczekujÄ…cego na Å'askÄ™.
~ Tadeusz Dajczer
One description of faith involves letting go of our resistance to receiving.
~ Taigen Dan Leighton
I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So
~ Neil Strauss
A strange plight for art lovers, who trained themselves to be receptive and then didn't dare use their faculties except upon imaginary things! Divide your mind in half, and build an emotion-tight compartment between the two; be sensitive to art and insensitive to life; learn to follow the example of that Russian countess who wept for the woes of the tenor in the opera while her coachman froze to death on the box outside!
~ Upton Sinclair
Aures habet, et non audiet.
~ Victor Hugo
Open, nevertheless.
~ Victor Hugo
Prayer is not a place to be good, it is a place to be honest. Prayer is not a place to perform, it is a place to be present. Prayer is not a place to be right, it is a place to be known. Prayer is not a place to prove your worth, it is a place to receive worth and offer yourself in truth.
~ Kyle Strobel
How do you just thrust "I love you" out into the air? It needs waiting arms to catch it.
~ Laini Taylor
Often, the key to getting what we need is simply to let it in.
~ Gina Greenlee
have. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.
~ Gina Lake
You attract what you ARE not what you want to be. That is why you have to BE it before you can RECEIVE it.
~ Gordana Biernat
I would imagine myself to be an empty vessel existing only to receive. As fully as possible. Without judgment.
~ Gordon MacKenzie
the primary challenge you face is not in increasing creativity per se, but in making your company receptive to the vast amounts of creativity that already exist. The point is not to build a company that depends on you for its innovation, but to continually work towards an organization that is as receptive to new ideas as if those ideas had come from you.
~ James C. Collins
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.
~ Louise Bourgeois
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
~ Erykah Badu
I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?' People are thirsty and hungry for information on our origins. I feel a responsibility as a major figure in the area... to convey to the public the knowledge of human origins in a way that is understandable to them.
~ Donald Johanson
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
~ Joe Jonas
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
~ Robert Genn
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
~ Arthur Miller
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.
~ Tessa Hadley
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
~ Thomas a Kempis