receptivity

Example Sentences

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“I think the principal thing is the idea of doing. It’s about the quality of being there. Receptivity to what is around you is so important.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Receptivity so far has been very, very good in terms of our strategy.”

From Forbes • Feb. 21, 2012

Receptivity is not enough, and no longer is the department allowed to wait for things to happen and then figure the best way out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Receptivity is the first prerequisite to progressive thinking, and that Thales reached out after and imbibed portions of Oriental wisdom argues in itself for the creative character of his genius.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

Receptivity and Greatness.—Here and there are those who by organization are sensitive and ready instruments to bless the world with the light of higher spheres.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson