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Attention with obedience attached — hearing advice and actually letting it steer you.
means To pay careful attention to something, especially advice or a warning, and let it actually guide what you do.
from From Old English 'hēdan,' meaning to care for, observe, or take notice of — part of a wider West Germanic family that also gave German 'hüten,' to guard or watch over. The old sense of guarding something has thinned over centuries into our modern sense of simply paying close mental attention, though the root idea — watching over something so it doesn't slip past you — still lingers underneath.
- old english
- from hedan, to care or guard
- usually negative
- mostly spotted in warnings nobody heeded
- not just listening
- you can hear advice without ever heeding it