Receiving Quotes

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.

Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

I actually hate receiving gifts, it makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.

Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.

No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.