Quotes About Receptiveness

Although I can work effectively in most environments, I prefer environments where people are their own bosses, within reason. I like to have a goal but be able to draw my own map to get there. To accomplish goals, I rely on asking questions and finding people receptive, so cooperation and access are important to me in a work group.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

My set is an open forum. Anybody can comment on anything and I take all suggestions from everyone. I am not rigid. If someone convinces me, I take the suggestion.

And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.

Open your heart to wine.

When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort of thing - but no belief was more central to Lewis's mind than the belief that it is eminently, fully rational to be responsive to the enchanting power of stories.

I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind.

Gratitude opens a clenched fist and a closed heart.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.