Quotes About Receptiveness

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

I think I am quite a good listener.

For me, the listeners are the ones who matter.

Always be listening and learning.

Be open to new information and ideas.

Humility opens the ears of opportunity.

But if men will not forego all pre-imbibed opinions, prejudices, and conceptions of mind, however rivetted into them by traditions, custom, veneration of elders, and secular advantages, to hearken unto and receive whatever he shall speak unto them, and that with a humble, lowly frame of heart, they will never learn the truth, nor attain a "full assurance of understanding" in the mysteries of God.

She was about as wide open as a fist.

If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes "nothing but" a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.

You can't be curious and on the attack at the same moment.

When opportunity knocks, you don't go punching it in the face.

Your brain is open. Never let it be closed.

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

Do not try to guess how fast or slow a pitch will be. Just let the ball arrive at its own pace, and be there to greet it

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.