#attentive

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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

#arrive #attentive #authorities #dictum #examine

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

— Kirk Douglas

#dog #huh #like #loving #more

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end. ↗

— Benedetto Marcello

#audience #counted #end #never #plot

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

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#attentive #became #i #i am #listener

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? ↗

— Jon Meacham

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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

#being #courage #god #him #just

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

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