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Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention! -- Matt Redman
Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship. -- Brian Tracy
Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation. -- Chungliang Al Huang
Humility is attentive patience. -- Simone Weil
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. -- Thornton Wilder
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. -- Kirk Douglas
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. -- Alexander Pope
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. -- William Hedgcock Webster
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. -- Thomas Merton
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator. -- Anthony Kiedis
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring. -- Frans de Waal
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others. -- Joan Halifax
I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in a while when I'm with my nieces and actually be attentive. -- Billy Horschel
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time. -- Nathan Fillion
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further. -- David Brainerd
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. -- Mary Antin
There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. -- Frances Wright
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. -- Frances Wright
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? -- Jon Meacham
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. -- David A. Bednar
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. -- Jennifer Garner
Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener. -- Daniel H. Pink
If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast. -- Aimee Mullins
I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination. -- Meaghan Rath
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores. -- Jeff Lindsay
The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings. -- Lance Loud
It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
You gotta love an attentive vampire --Kylie -- C.C. Hunter
There is no substitute for attentive repetition. -- Daniel Coyle
Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. -- John Szarkowski
Be attentive to the voice of grace. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. -- Stephen King
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. -- William Hamilton Maxwell
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
True beauty is a warm heart, a kind soul, and an attentive ear. -- Ken Poirot
The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool. -- C. S. Lewis
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. -- Frederick Wiseman
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. -- Groucho Marx
When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. -- Dale Carnegie
We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God. -- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. -- Charles Dickens
The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21) -- Nhat Hanh
Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses. -- Antonio Ermirio de Moraes
Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac. -- Paulo Coelho
I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience. -- John Mahoney
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading. -- J. C. Ryle
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are. -- Paul Newman
I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone. -- Jenna Lyons
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. -- Nicholas G. Carr
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love. -- Bernard Lonergan
Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also. -- Gary Carr
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. -- Francois Rabelais
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. -- Joseph Sobran
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house. -- Ariel Gore
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. -- Nicholas G. Carr
It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights -- Claudia Cardinale
I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized. -- Sergio Leone
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness. -- Adrienne Monnier
Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit. -- Peter Julian Eymard
I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief. -- Orhan Pamuk
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief." -- Orhan Pamuk
While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it. -- Nachman of Breslov
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods. -- Sophocles
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment. -- Susan Orlean
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.' -- John Ortberg
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. -- Rene Descartes
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say. -- George Washington
I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives. -- Barack Obama
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners. -- Marc Myers
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough. -- Lawrence Durrell
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. -- Richard Hooker
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. -- William Cowper
I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct. -- Hattie Morahan
It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things. -- Bryan Stevenson
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
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
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle. -- Lucian Freud
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. -- Isocrates
I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy. -- Alan W. Livingston
Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great. -- Eleanor Duckworth
It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is. -- Steve Morse
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding. -- Loris Malaguzzi
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. -- May Sarton
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. -- Joseph Joubert
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous. -- Lewis Mumford
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace. -- Adoniram Judson
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. -- John Dewey
You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism. -- Yehudi Menuhin
All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl. -- S. J. Perelman
Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference. -- Pope Francis
To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first. Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind. In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less. -- Kyuzo Mifune
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil? -- Oliver Goldsmith
I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. -- Diane Cilento
Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being attentive to the breath as it moves through the body. -- Rodney Yee
To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past. -- David Whyte
At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. -- Annie Dillard
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer. -- Robin Becker

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