“The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.” MenMindWellsSpiritualAttitudeTakenInfluenceHe ManListeningIronListenersCompelledReceptiveFree YourselfGrappling Author:Charles Dickens
“The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.” PeoplePersonsWaitingEffortAttitudeAwarenessGreatnessHugeListeningDegreesNewsOrdinaryMachinesEntertainmentSensesConsumersAnalysisGoodsWakingVehicleHeroismOddsEarningExceptionalPassivityOrdinary Person Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.” RealProcessHoursAttitudeTalkingEnvironmentCommunicationListeningBack And ForthInteractiveEyeballs Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.” LoveHeartDesireHealingAttitudeLove YouListeningGenuineHealInspirational LoveListening To Others Author:Christopher Isham
“Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience.” IfsMenAttitudeWillingListeningMen And WomenIdealsAssumingMeetingsPersonal ExperiencesObeyingCommunicators Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“As a young girl I was a real tomboy, only listening to myself. I carried on with this attitude even as a woman and when I first launched the Sonia Rykiel line, and said to women to remove their bras or when I designed sweaters with stitches inside out, everybody said to me that it was crazy and risky, but I ignored what they said and I did what I felt was right at the time.” FirstsSaidRealYoungGirlFeltLinesAttitudeCrazyListeningRemoveIgnoredThey SaidSweatersBrasStitches Author:Sonia Rykiel