#attentive

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

#anxious #attentively #every #i #imagination

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

#attentive #favorable #governed #hearers #multitude

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

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

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#attentive #high #knowledge #only #people

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

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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