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Quotes About Attentive

Mr. Cobb was my escort, she said. Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten — when Larry Cobb was sober.
~ Raymond Chandler
She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand
~ Karin Slaughter
Carver is a charming man with a soft voice that makes you believe he is always confiding in you. He is courteous and attentive, which I wonder about, because is this his natural disposition, or has he read too many novels about Hannibal Lecter?
~ Karin Slaughter
Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
~ Truman Capote
A sleeping cat is ever alert.
~ Fred Schwab
Do not just exist, be fully awake.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time.
~ Will Schwalbe
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
~ William Hedgcock Webster
I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.
~ Danny DeVito
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
~ Charles Dickens
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
~ Christopher Pike
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.
~ Jenna Lyons
I'm someone who likes to listen, who likes to watch, and who likes to learn.
~ Sadio Mane
I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.
~ Pankaj Kapur
People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
~ Avicii
Reedlike, that's what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn't lean over your shoulder and arch herself out behind like a debutante....She leans back from you [and] takes a good look in your eyes and a firm grip on your name before she will allow herself to say a word.'
~ Richard Rhodes
He observed his hostess attentively from under his shaggy brows, and noted a subtle change which had transformed her from the listless woman he had known into a being who, for the moment, seemed palpitant with the forces of life. Her speech was warm and energetic. There was no repression in her glance or gesture. She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.
~ Kate Chopin
Now? The future and I are just about even, our quarrel all but resolved. I welcome its coming, and I resolve to be attentive to the details of its arrival. I plan to meet it at the station in my best white dress, violet corsage in hand. Waving
~ Kathleen Rooney
A l'évidence, cette décision nécessitait une réflexion longue et attentive. Il la prit sur-le-champ. Il rentrerait en Angleterre.
~ Ken Follett
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
~ William James
He is a very special person, you know." I did know, because he always made sure my milk was warm—but not too hot—before giving it to me.
~ David Michie
When people ask me how I am I tell them......"I'm present
~ Matthew Donnelly
shut up", it means be quiet and listen!
~ Ali Vali