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The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions. -- Pam Grier
One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback. -- Ben Silbermann
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. -- Daniel Kahneman
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience. -- Michael Shermer
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen. -- Anouk Aimee
When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them. -- Allen Funt
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. -- Hermann Hesse
I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with. -- Fab Five Freddy
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. -- Agnes Repplier
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different. -- Joe Jonas
You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know. -- Zac Efron
The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. -- Scott Ritter
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book. -- Christopher Koch
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive. -- David Hewson
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ. -- Anita Baker
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. -- Che Guevara
I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all. -- Cat Deeley
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. -- Minor White
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results. -- Louise Bourgeois
Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains. -- Jaromir Jagr
Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning. -- Tom Shales
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. -- Karl Jaspers
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. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising. -- Marc Ostrofsky
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Maintain a receptive attitude! -- Tae Yun Kim
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them. -- Lawrence Block
To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart. -- Gautama Buddha
The more mature we are, the more receptive we are. -- Marianne Williamson
People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy. -- James Cook
I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe. -- Eric Butterworth
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. -- George Eliot
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. -- John Keats
Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love. -- Louise Hay
I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe. -- Louise Hay
Its extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them. -- Mike McCready
I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls. -- Goldie Hawn
The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring. -- Meister Eckhart
Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings. -- Peggy Toney Horton
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen. -- Anouk Aimee
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. -- George W. Crane
Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving. -- Paul A. Kaufman
To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive, -- Gabrielle Reece
Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create. -- Jake T. Austin
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. -- Toba Beta
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Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. -- Fulton J. Sheen
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate. -- Bill Crawford
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Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. -- Peter Weiss
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. -- Hermann Hesse
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive. -- Cyndi Lee
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. -- Agnes Repplier
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion. -- Jeffrey Deitch
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness. -- Marianne Williamson
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled, -- Ron Paul
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. -- Bill Brandt
When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive. -- Stephen Frears
By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source. -- Wayne Dyer
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. -- Margaret Halsey
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. -- Richard Hugo
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. -- Alain de Botton
Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do. -- David J. Schwartz
Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104) -- Ravi Ravindra
I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy. -- Todd Solondz
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life. -- Warren Farrell
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. -- Maya Rudolph
To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive. -- John Daido Loori
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Fun is the main thing. Because fun helps you transmit your message. You can only do that - transmit - when people are receptive. -- Eddy de Clercq
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive. -- Archie Shepp
Donald Trump was very receptive. Funny. Cracked some jokes. And understand it very well. And said he was in that he would work with us. -- Jim Brown
Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age. -- Vivek Shraya
Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them. -- Victoria Moran
Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed. -- Harvey Dunn
Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. -- Thomas Troward
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative. -- Barbara Fredrickson
Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment. -- Rajneesh
People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire -- Henri Nouwen
You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner. -- Karen Armstrong
By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine. -- Ming-Dao Deng
You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations. -- Dean Ornish
You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive. -- Arca
When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives. -- Samael Aun Weor
The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive. -- Samael Aun Weor
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health. -- Wayne Dyer
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. -- William Beebe
When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive. -- Frederick Lenz
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive. -- Frederick Lenz
Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment. -- Martin Laird
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive. -- Albert Einstein
Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love. -- Louise Hay
You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice. -- Leonard Cohen
The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions. -- Henry L. Stimson
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.) -- Walt Whitman
If you shed all your inhibitions, your anger, your fears, and all your bitterness towards others, you will be receptive and you can recognize the signals when you come across your soulmate. -- Girdhar Joshi
After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above. -- Sri Aurobindo
During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed. -- Rick Warren
I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing. -- Eddy de Clercq
Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive. -- Gail Zappa
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form. -- Martin Buber
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger. -- Chuck Jones
There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience. -- Jimmy Page
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results. -- Louise Bourgeois
A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there. -- Annette Bening

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