Attentively Quotes

#1. 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

#2. To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#4. Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

Josemaria Escriva

#5. As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the effort: The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us.

Lauren F. Winner

#6. Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Martin Luther

#7. 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

#8. If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

#9. But the man continuing to exclaim, "Down, Evremonde!" the face of Evremonde is for a moment turned towards him. Evremonde then sees the Spy, and looks attentively at him, and goes his way.

Charles Dickens

#10. Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

Malalai Joya

#11. Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her so.

Voltaire

#12. It is a duet, and like most duets moreover in that one listens attentively only for the signal which announces the advent of one's own voice.

Henry Miller

#13. Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.

David Nicholls

#14. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

David Whyte

#15. Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable.

Taizan Maezumi

#16. Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

Giuseppe Peano

#17. The more respect that different objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you have to question the right these things have to this respect.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don't look attentively, if you don't go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.

Rawi Hage

#19. Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods ... I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.

Gherman Titov

#20. Saints, such as me, ought always to listen attentively to the prayers of poor, dirty, ragged men, such as you. No matter how offensively those prayers are phased.

Susanna Clarke

#21. He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

Emanuel Lasker

#22. If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.

Michel De Montaigne

#23. The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

Pope Francis

#24. I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Etel Adnan

#25. Don't just listen with your two ears only. Listen attentively. Listen with every fiber of your being!

Assegid Habtewold

#26. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

John Cage

#27. We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.

Richard J. Foster

#28. Empty orators and silent scholars
died without having understood Being and non-Being.
Ignorants, my brothers, let us continue tasting
the juice of the grape attentively and let
the authorities satisfy themselves
with dry raisins.

Omar Khayyam

#29. 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

#30. Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them ... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Hermann Hesse

#31. If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

Honore De Balzac

#32. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

Maya Angelou

#33. Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Kathleen Norris

#34. Isaac F. Marcosson, a journalist who interviewed hundreds of celebrities, declared that many people fail to make a favourable impression because they don't listen attentively.

Dale Carnegie

#35. When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Pablo Picasso

#36. The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Joseph Addison

#37. I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.

Tom Harrell

#38. In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

Paul Tournier

#39. Wouldn't you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and make the other person listen attentively? Yes? All right. Here it is: "I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.

Dale Carnegie

#40. One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

Pema Chodron

#41. Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#42. Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

Gautama Buddha

#43. The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.

Karen Blixen

#44. 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

#45. Looking is an important part of Stanwyck's acting: many performers have beautiful eyes (for example, Henry Fonda), or use their eyes expressively (most remarkably, perhaps, Bette Davis), but few use them so attentively to observe and survey others and the world [as Stanwyck].

Andrew Klevan

#46. She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

Anne Bronte

#47. The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.

George Polya

#48. The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

Ban Ki-moon

#49. If it is God who gives prayer, then God often gives it in the form of gratitude, and gratitude itself, when it is received attentively in prayer, is healing to the heart. Prayer is such a mysterious business for something so ordinary and everyday.

Roberta Bondi

#50. When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Plutarch

#51. to listen attentively to every word when someone is speaking of something which interests you not at all is the triumph of will over desire

E.S. Purnell

#52. Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

John Bruna

#53. If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.

Angela Of Foligno

#54. I turned towards the garden when the door had closed on her. Miss Halcombe was standing with her hat in her hand, and her shawl over her arm, by the large window that led out to the lawn, and was looking at me attentively.

Wilkie Collins

#55. How can you tell a man there's nothing to do? I can't imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don't worry about the rest. There's so much to do that a lifetime won't be enough, if you look around attentively.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky