#attentive

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 didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#been #excited #i #intent #know

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. ↗

— Francis Wright

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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. ↗

— William Trevor

#enormously #every #fiction #find #i

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

— Kirk Douglas

#dog #huh #like #loving #more

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

— William Hamilton Maxwell

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Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

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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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