Being Receptive Quotes

#1. Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

Jake T. Austin

#2. The Suffering are always here, no matter where else they may be.

Christopher Golden

#3. The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Joseph Campbell

#4. Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.

Paul A. Kaufman

#5. Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Joseph Gurney Cannon

#6. If we open our hearts to give love we are immediately transported into the joy and blessings of love.

Genevieve Gerard

#7. We must be present enough and receptive enough to "hear" with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

Henry Kimsey-House

#8. You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.

Derrick Jensen

#9. Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

Fred Rogers

#10. If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Jenim Dibie

#11. The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

#12. The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

David Schwimmer

#13. I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Cyndi Lee

#14. By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

Wayne Dyer

#15. By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

Ming-Dao Deng

#16. Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The art of living ... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Alan W. Watts

#18. The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Thomas Jefferson