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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Trying, Spirit

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• I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all.

  Louise Hay

  Knowing, Choices, Desire

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.193, Hay House, Inc

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• The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mature

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

  Ben Silbermann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, I've Learned

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• Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

  Lawrence Block

  Ideas, People

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• 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

  Spiritual, Perception, Clarity

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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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• 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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• 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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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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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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