Quotes About Receptivity

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

El amante accesible. Cuando la gente madura, se protege contra experiencias dolorosas encerrándose en sí misma. El precio de esto es la rigidez, física y mental. Pero los niños están por naturaleza desprotegidos y dispuestos a experimentar, y esta receptividad es muy atractiva.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Often we are so burdened and overwhelmed with other thoughts, images, and concerns that it may take a long time before God's Word has cleared all that away and gets through to us.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Sometimes when people get to be too nice, you end up not thanking them, because you are completely tired of saying thank you. Then they become more and more hangdog and you want to thank them even less.

Of course, you can't spend all of your time listening to random inputs. But you should be open to them. As you keep doing it, you will develop a feel for whose views are apt to contain gems of information and a sense of who will take advantage of your openness to clutter you with noise. Over time, then, you can adjust your receptivity accordingly.

I will put animosity between you and the woman, and between your descendant and her descendant; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He can always speak to a receptive heart.

For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He can always speak to a receptive heart.

Kindness is very attractive when you're not used to it.

Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.

What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

Yes please," Strike said, on the principle that all friendly gestures should be accepted in such situations.

As Major Ian Thomas put it, "All there is of God is available to the person who is available to all there is of God."1

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.