Attentive Quotes

(on Doris Day) I have nothing but the best to say about Doris Day. She was wonderful to me, really lovely. She sent flowers when I started and remained friendly and attentive. As I`ve said, it`s difficult when you start stepping down. You fight so hard to get to the top and then you realize it`s time to gracefully give in a little. Doris, who was riding high then, never played the prima dona. I appreciated her attitude enormously.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

(On his wife, Monica Bellucci): Her best asset of actress - and woman too! - is not her beauty, but her intelligence. Her intelligence of people and of things. She is very perspicacious, very attentive with the others and has a great faculty to put them at ease. To work with her, I would say, to put besides any concept of couple, that it is as when I find Mathieu (Kassovitz): together, one goes more directly to essence. Plus, she is an incredible hard worker. She has a curiosity of cinema which is rare. She is moved by the directors, she is very listening... In general, I recognize it, I am interested more in the actors than in the actresses - is already well to recognize it! But her, she has something that few actresses have. A manner of exceeding reality, of making dream. I like to look at her playing...

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don`t think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

He takes great pride in it. He`s always attentive to the game situation, knows when we`re going to probably crank `er up a little bit more than normal based on the situation. There`s no dialogue; he`s there before I ever get there. Kind of like you see guys in the Home Run Derby. They bring in their own batting practice pitcher. There`s a select comfort you get from somebody.

For the series we are using a couple of horses, most of which have worked on Sea Biscuit. Mattie, Reno, Finder and Houdini, all of which have extraordinary talents. Bobby, their trainer has them so well trained and attentive, they hit their marks without anyone holding on to them. They can rear, lope and stop when asked. Bobby even had me train on his horse Houdini with no hands while he told him how fast and where to go. It was an incredible and liberating experience and I gained a lot of trust and confidence from it.

If I were in that situation, I would appreciate someone in a big red van showing up to help out, you know? I would appreciate someone being attentive.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people`s only source of knowledge about the world.