Quotes About Receptivity

We only hear what we're ready to hear

Solo oímos lo que estamos preparados para oír

Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

An open heart leaves a breach for someone to pour love into it.

Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don't select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It's like that poem of Wordsworth's, 'Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.' In

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

Strange how, after deciding to take life as one finds it, life comes fawning to one's hand.

3. Suggestibility

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.

You change yourself in this world (indeed, if it comes from outside yourself it can be taken away). What other people --or other entities-- can do is inspire you; they can plant seeds of inspiration. If the soil isn't receptive, the seed dies, the idea is lost, as there was no place for inspiration to take hold.

In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.

And Nature is enough for us, gives us all the light we want and all that we, as yet, are fitted to receive.

I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

I've said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that's bad' - and I never say it again because that's the feedback I get.

I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.

Even in a given territory what would work in one city in front of one crowd might not work in front of another crowd. Every crowd is different in what they are looking for and what they'll respond to.