#attentive

It is important to learn the difference between staying with an experience until it is completed and hanging on, trying to get something more-anything more-from a situation which is either finished or barren. The basic clues are whether attention to the issue is loose, unfixed, mobile attentiveness or whether it is an attentiveness which feels glued to its object. The people with the bug-eyed stare, the clinging grasp, the insistent preoccupations, the sense of desperation, the ready-made sermons, the unwillingness to leave when conversations are finished, the quoting of authorities, etc. are all hanging on. ↗

— Erving Polster

#hanging-on #staying-with-it #experience

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

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blind #fortune #invisible #look #man

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#another #architect #attentive #charming #deeply

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

#cannot #further #generally #here #i

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

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

#am #attentive #bigger #changed #circumstances

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

#attentive #back #educator #father #great

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. ↗

— William Hedgcock Webster

#attentive #conscious #intelligence #more #people

Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attentive #humility