#attentive

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. ↗

— Karl Rove

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Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public. ↗

— Michael Schudson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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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

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

— Francis Bacon

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