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• 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

  Perfect, Advertising Business, May

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• 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

  Spiritual, Might, Wealth

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• 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

  Mind, Photographer, Film

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• Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

  John Keats

  Flower, Passive

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.43, Рипол Классик

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• I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

  Joe Jonas

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Vegetarianism, Space

  "From R to Z".

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• 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

  Dream, Art, Children

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• It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that determines how much you can attain of true knowledge, and how rapidly. You can quicken your evolution by awakening and increasing the receptive power of your brain cells.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Cells, Giving, Brain

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• 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

  Food, Guests, Soup

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Thinking, Opposites

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• Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Vegetables, Land, Water

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• Meditate or spend silent time in nature with your partner. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Car, Together

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.94, New World Library

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• Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Children, Parent, Belief

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.24, Penguin

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• We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Memories, Fate, Long

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• 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

  Blue, Nudge Nudge, People

  Eugene H. Peterson (1999). “Stories of Jesus: From the Text of the Message”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.

  James Cook

  Ideas, People, Conspiracy

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

  Wayne Dyer

  God, Peaceful, Patterns

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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• I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.

  Betsy Blair

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Betsy Blair (2003). “The Memory of All that: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris”, Knopf

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• To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Soul

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.185

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• I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Positive, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 28, 2013

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• Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

  Robert McKee

  Laughter, Hate, Fall

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Creativity, Mind, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.164, U of Nebraska Press

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• Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

  Richard Hugo

  Creative, Finals, Looks

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• To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Mean, Looks, Submissive

  Gabrielle Reece, Karen Karbo (2014). “My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• [About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

  I. L. Peretz

  Heart, Ideas, Humanitarian

  Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), p. 28, June 1952.

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