The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them.

James Clapper

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

Adam Jones

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Agnes Repplier

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

Allen Funt

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

Angela Ahrendts

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

Anita Baker

When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.

Anna Getty

Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.

Anna Getty

Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and suspicious of democratic institutions.

Anne Applebaum

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.

Annette Bening

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

Anouk Aimee

I'm very receptive to direction, to change, and to developing myself as an artist and human.

Aquaria

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

Archie Shepp

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

Ben Silbermann

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Bill Brandt

I think we, the Republicans, have been mistyped as unfriendly to minorities and not receptive to minority views.

Bill Flores

What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.

Binyavanga Wainaina

My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

Bode Miller

It's part of improving every day, being willing to be receptive of the people who know and see things from the outside that you might not notice in the inside.

Carlos Vela

There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.

Cass Sunstein

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Cat Deeley