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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't know when the last time was that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas made a movie with Universal, but I can tell you that Universal is leading the charge. They're looking at film differently. They're planning ahead in a way that I've never seen a studio do before. They're believing in a relationship between fan and film franchise, in a new way. They're more receptive to an audience, in part because of social media, in a way we've never been allowed.

Vin Diesel

Believe, Media, Planning Ahead

"Vin Diesel Talks RIDDICK, Balancing His Producer and Actor Roles, Making Good on Promises, HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR, Future of Cinema, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Light, Desire, Spirit

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...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

Attitude, Spring, Differences

Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.9, Harper Collins

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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

Inspiration, Butterfly, Land

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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

Margaret Halsey

Envy, Adults, Degrees

Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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There is a natural rhythm to the active and receptive energies within us. At times our energy is strong and outgoing - it is time to pursue our goals, take risks, get things accomplished. At other times, our energy is quiet and sensitive, and we need to take time to nurture ourselves, relax, and just 'be' for a while. As we trust and follow this rhythm, we attract everything we need and create everything we truly desire.

Shakti Gawain

Strong, Goal, Risk

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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

Buddhism, Able, Quiet

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To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

Louise Bourgeois

Artist, Emotion, Inspired

"My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.

Rita Dove

Moving, America, Poetry

Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 June 1993

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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

Writing, Mind, Answers

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.635

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I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe.

Eric Butterworth

Universe

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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

Men, Narcissistic, Results

Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Thinking, People, Soul

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It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.

Linda Stone

Ideas, Giving, Mind

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Maintain a receptive attitude!

Tae Yun Kim

Attitude

Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

Harvey Dunn

Intelligent, Expression, Ideas

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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

Teacher, Buddhist, Teaching

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There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Beauty, Inspiration, Eye

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