Top 100 Receptive Quotes
#1. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William Beebe
#2. When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
Bill Crawford
#3. When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
Karen Salmansohn
#4. I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.
Tom Verlaine
#5. When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
Allen Funt
#6. Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Thomas Troward
#7. Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.
Victoria Moran
#8. The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.
Scott Ritter
#9. Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will
Bell Hooks
#10. Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson
#11. When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.
Jake T. Austin
#13. It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
Alain De Botton
#14. There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.
Eric Hoffer
#15. With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
Peter Weiss
#16. In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.
Charlotte Mason
#17. In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
Abdu'l- Baha
#18. I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.
Tony Tan
#19. My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
Pam Grier
#20. I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
George Eliot
#21. The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted ... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.
Michael Beckwith
#22. The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
Warren Farrell
#23. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
Pico Iyer
#24. you should never underestimate the power of keeping your mind open to new information. If you're always receptive, you could gain just that piece of the puzzle you need, when you're least expecting it.
Bryan Dodge
#25. Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure ... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
George W. Crane
#26. To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
Albert Einstein
#27. You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#28. The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.
Sun Bu'er
#29. If you shed all your inhibitions, your anger, your fears, and all your bitterness towards others, you will be receptive and you can recognize the signals when you come across your soulmate.
Girdhar Joshi
#30. Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.
Richard Hugo
#31. As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
Anita Baker
#32. One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.
Louis Pullig De Gouy
#33. But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.
Eugene H. Peterson
#34. Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development?
Robert DeKeyser
#35. You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
Zac Efron
#36. Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred.
David Pietrusza
#37. Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.
Paul A. Kaufman
#38. A very receptive state of mind ... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Minor White
#39. Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.
Wilferd Peterson
#40. I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
Christopher Koch
#43. Ready for sex, but my body had been so receptive to his touch. Was it like that for everyone else? I wish I could ask Emmy without bringing suspicion upon myself. She had been to third base more times than some baseball players. I snickered out loud at my joke. Emmet looked at me with one eyebrow
L.D. Davis
#44. I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
Maya Rudolph
#45. I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#46. But he was a perfect gentleman, Aunt Amelia. He did not even try to kiss me, though he wanted to ... You always tell me I must be receptive to broadening experiences. That would have been a broadening experience. And, from what I have observed, a very enjoyable one.
Elizabeth Peters
#47. But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
Stephen Spender
#48. Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.
Martin Laird
#49. The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.
Meister Eckhart
#50. During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.
Rick Warren
#51. I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
Fab Five Freddy
#52. It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier
#53. Before you rise every morning let your mind drift gently to the awareness of the support you can draw from this quiet moment as you align your life with your Soul purpose and gather around you and be receptive and connect to the love your Soul brings to you.
Genevieve Gerard
#54. You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
Chuck Jones
#55. Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.
Kalashatra Govinda
#56. Death did not play favorites - He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure .
The god's voice - not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind -
Lilith Saintcrow
#57. When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.
Kate Bolick
#58. To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
George Eliot
#59. Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
Michael Shermer
#60. That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
Eugene H. Peterson
#61. In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.
Frederick Lenz
#62. And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters."
"The waters," he said, "were not receptive."
"If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.
J.D. Robb
#63. Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.
Dean Ornish
#64. Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.
Keith Lazelle
#66. Those who believe in climate change, as I do, I think it's also fair to say that they are more receptive to confirming evidence than disconfirming evidence. They happen to be right, but their motivations are in play also.
Cass Sunstein
#67. 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
#68. You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.
Karen Armstrong
#69. Be ready for huge failures to achieve huge success,
Be receptive for criticism. It can be constructive too.!
Harsh Malik
#70. One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
Ben Silbermann
#71. Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
David J. Schwartz
#72. After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.
Sri Aurobindo
#73. You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.
Jaggi Vasudev
#74. Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
Dalai Lama
#75. Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#76. 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
#77. Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che Guevara
#78. The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
Henry L. Stimson
#79. The differences between the conservative and the radical seem to
spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the
future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith
in the future renders us receptive to change.
Eric Hoffer
#80. Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.
Gail Zappa
#81. It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.
Mike McCready
#82. When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.
Tom Waits
#83. When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.
Samael Aun Weor
#84. She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
Edith Wharton
#85. To be anxious wasn't shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life's contradictions, more receptive to the true nature of things than everyone else. It was to be a person who saw with sharper eyes with more a active skin.
Daniel Smith
#86. Writing unlocks the heart and soul that we might be receptive to God's blessings.
Peggy Toney Horton
#87. Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.
Peggy Toney Horton
#88. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
Anouk Aimee
#89. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#90. Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
Jeffrey Deitch
#91. I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So
Neil Strauss
#92. I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe.
Eric Butterworth
#93. It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#94. When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.
Stephen Frears
#95. For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.
Joaquin Phoenix
#96. I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
Archie Shepp
#97. 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
#98. I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're out there. You're receptive, appreciative of details. It heightens reality. You're trying to step into your alertness.
Debra Granik
#99. When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.
Julie Connor
#100. Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
Crispian Mills
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