Receptive Quotes

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

  Paul A. Kaufman

  Skills, Creative, Listening

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• All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Heart

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• As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, Needs, Realizing

  "A Conversation with Phil Keoghan | Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mind

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• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

  Allen Funt

  Smile, People, Want

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• It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!

  Alex Toth

  Fun, Thinking, Squares

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• 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

  Nature, Science, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Doors, Heaven, Looks

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• 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

  Hands, Umpires, Political

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• The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Happiness, Peace

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

  John Cleese

  Preparation, Alternatives, Moments

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• The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Mind, Prejudice, Attention

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• As Einstein queried, 'Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I'm shaving?' Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we're thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through us; our energy gets stuck in our heads. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Morning, Thinking, Cells

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• Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

  Louise Hay

  Lovable, Ready For Love

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.73, Hay House, Inc

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• Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

  John Keats

  Flower, Knowledge, Eye

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Intuition, Mind, Weaving

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• 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

  Responsibility, Years, People

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• History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

  Ron Paul

  Promise, Mass, Fulfilled

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Art, Views

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things, Our Lives

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

  Jake T. Austin

  Inspiration, Giving, Desire

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• 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

  Live Concerts, Ideas, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

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