Quotes About Receptiveness

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

The purpose of reading is not to pass some final judgement on the text, but to engage with what it has to offer to me now.

Keep your ears open. You know what the first word of the holy rule of Saint Benedict is? Listen.

Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority. "I found so much obedience," Milgram remembered, "that I hardly saw the need for taking the experiment to Germany.

I'm really open to everything.

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

You've got to keep an open mind.

I am someone who will listen and someone who has an open mind.

I am a person always with an open mind.

I keep an open mind.

I keep an open mind when a script is narrated to me.

I always want to listen with an open mind.

I try to keep an open mind.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

Psychologists have identified two contrasting mindsets that affect our motivation and our receptiveness to new opportunities: a "prevention focus," which orients us toward avoiding negative outcomes, and a "promotion focus," which orients us toward pursuing positive outcomes.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them." – Moominpappa

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

The which if you with patient ears attend