Quotes About Receptiveness

#1. Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#3. It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Bill Brandt

#4. If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes "nothing but" a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#5. To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them into receptiveness.

George Eliot

#6. The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

Robert Genn

#8. When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

Ellen Key

#9. The dominant knowledge system tends to embrace an anti-pluralism, a lack of receptiveness to alternative epistemologies, to other ways of knowing the world.

Laurelyn Whitt

#10. We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.

Russ Harris

#11. Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

George Eliot

#12. receptiveness which promises a revolution both in philosophical and in religious thinking; here they are filtering in through many indirect influences, there slowly pouring through direct and open channels. There is hardly a

Sri Aurobindo

#13. There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

Robert Wilson

#14. Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Ryan White

#15. Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

Martin Zweig

#16. INTERVIEWER:
What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?

MALAMUD:
Write your heart out.

Bernard Malamud

#17. Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.

Matt Ridley

#18. Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Clay Shirky

#19. Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

#20. A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

#21. He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza