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“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention”

Giving Attention Communication Listening Educational Purity Wrestling Greatest Gifts Just Listen Listening To Others Good Listener

Author:Richard Moss

“I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.”

Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.”

Way Fall Language Realizing Pay Attention Communication Rely Interfere Comprehension

Book:Euphoria

Source: Euphoria

“The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.”

Men World Book Facts Attention Known Effects Communication Overcoming Size Obstacles Access Income Range Neighborhood Tangible

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.”

Men America Desire Literature Black Voice White Attention Alive Heard Media Objects Communication Activity Understood Rage Legislation Delivery

Author:June Jordan

“I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.”

Way Want Light Attention Consciousness Focus Communication Shining Train Seeking Yield Unlikely Conditioning Nonviolent Communication Leading Me

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.”

Needs Attention Focus Communication Mets Reminders Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying”

Pay Attention Talking Too Much One Thing Communication Accomplish Pay Attention Talking Too Much

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.”

Chance Attention Emotional Communication Empathy Connections Pay Attention Lacking Emotional Connection

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Your feelings are cosmic communication! The good feelings mean, GOOD FOR YOU. The bad feelings are to get your attention so that you will change what you are focusing on.”

Mean Feelings Attention Communication Cosmic Good Feeling

Book:The Secret Daily Teachings

Source: The Secret Daily Teachings

“If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.”

Ifs Giving May Ends Problem Able Individual Attention Communication Block Significance Something New Attending

Book:On Dialogue

Source: On Dialogue

“It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.”

Wish Attention Opinion Communication Ought Glory Weight Unions Representatives Closest Constituents Correspondence

Book:A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings

Source: A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings