#attentive

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

— Michael Schudson

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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

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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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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. ↗

— Francis Wright

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

— William Hedgcock Webster

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Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

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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

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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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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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