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Quotes About Receptiveness

The moment she removed his head from the body, she felt the strange and intoxicating touch of freedom. That anonymity of the body was a suddenly discovered paradise. With an odd delight, she expelled her wounded and too vigilant soul and was transformed into a simple body without past or memory, but all the more eager and receptive. She tenderly caressed Eva's face, while the headless body moved vigorously on top of her.
~ Milan Kundera
The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.
~ Taryn Manning
I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.
~ Bram Stoker
she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.
~ Karren Brady
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
~ George Dana Boardman Pepper
When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.
~ Bette Greene
I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.
~ Jenna Dewan
Some people ain't approachable, and some people are.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.
~ Desmond Harrington
Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.
~ Katherine Paterson
Acho que as coisas estão sempre a acontecer, mas que a pessoa tem de se pôr a jeito para não lhe passarem ao lado.
~ Gayle Forman
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
~ George Dana Boardman
Experience teaches only the teachable.
~ Aldous Huxley
None so deaf as those that will not hear.
~ Matthew Henry
I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I'm covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more.
~ Lynsey Addario
I always try to be open to whatever the universe wants from me.
~ Jen Kirkman
Deep, quiet listening is a great gift.
~ Susan P. Halpern
I'm always open. As soon as I cross the half-court line, I'm open.
~ Reggie Miller
Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness.
~ Napoleon Hill
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
~ Tom Robbins
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good.
~ Tom Robbins
True self-confidence is "the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.
~ Carol S. Dweck
A man who won't listen can't hear.
~ George R.R. Martin