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Quotes About Attentive

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
~ Chief Joseph
In this sense, the methodological form that comes into play here is ultimately quite simple: Scripture is interpreted by Scripture. Scripture interprets itself. Attentive listening to Scripture's own internal self-interpretation is very characteristic of Redemptoris Mater.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
I kept my poker face on and listened to him with an air of interest and respect (I thought of what it says in one of Rand's novels, how the winner can afford to be generous).
~ Harvey Pekar
They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...
~ Jane Austen
But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
~ Jane Austen
I was quiet, but I was not blind
~ Jane Austen
A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Busy people are never busybodies.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
Because I have already attended to the matter, sir." "What?" "Yes, sir. I decided, after all, to acquiesce in your wishes." I stared at the man, astounded. I was deeply moved. Well, I mean, wouldn't any chap who had been going about thinking that the old feudal spirit was dead and then suddenly found it wasn't have been deeply moved? "Jeeves," I said, "I am touched.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.
~ Wilkie Collins
Not exactly shy. I was—quiet." "Circumspect," Vivian says. "Watchful." Molly turns these words over in her mind. Circumspect? Watchful? Is she?
~ Christina Baker Kline
the Spirit himself is sovereign over the mission, the church can only be the attentive servant. In
~ Lesslie Newbigin
I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.
~ Fred Armisen
Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That's Rule No. 1.
~ R-Truth
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is now a good friend, and the thing that strikes you about him is that he's all about details.
~ Gavin Esler
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
~ Jen Lancaster
Where are they written? In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world. If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets. Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.
~ Paulo Coelho
War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.
~ Winston S. Churchill
her sleep vigilantly
~ Lisa Jewell
Devon glanced at him with mild surprise. "For a man who's seldom more than half sober, you've noticed a great deal." "Have I?" West looked perturbed. "Forgive me – I seem to have become accidentally lucid." He reached for his wineglass.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
~ Roz Chast
I was a very conscientious student.
~ Nneka
I'm quite a studious person, I think.
~ Alex Higgins
I was very studious.
~ Sherlyn Chopra