Sensitive Quotes - Page 25

• Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

  John French Sloan

  Wall, Couple, Mistake

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• We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

  Seth Shostak

  Sight, Bus Stops, Years

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• Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Passion, Soul, Would Be

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• War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

  Cesare Pavese

  Appreciation, Regret, War

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.138, Transaction Publishers

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• Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Enough, Weak

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Light, Class, Finals

  Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts August 27, 1880. Published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light", American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, Volume XX, No.118, pp. 305-324, October 1880.

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• The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Girl, Light, Color

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

  Richard Jeni

  Yoga, Hypocrite, Yelling

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

  Georges Bernanos

  Thinking, Lust, Faces

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.124, Da Capo Press

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• You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

  Richard Pryor

  Sex, Men, Scary

  "The time of his life" by William Cook, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2004.

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• Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Children, Dark

  H.P. Lovecraft (2005). “At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition”, p.107, Modern Library

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• Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Cities, Paris

  Bram Stoker (2015). “The Burial of the Rats”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• [Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Ease, Vivid

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.57, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.

  J. J. Abrams

  Beautiful, Real, Technology

  "‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Director J.J. Abrams Extols Shooting on Film vs. Digital" by Ben Fritz, blogs.wsj.com. Jul 29, 2014.

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• There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

  Herbert Spencer

  Clear Head, Law, Practice

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.9

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• Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

  Gregory Bateson

  Animal, Grace, Achieve

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• Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

  Rollo May

  Men, Sides, Machines

  "Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 30, 1967.

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• As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  Uta Hagen

  Guy, Poor, Bad Education

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• What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Thinking

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• If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Community, Needs

  "Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, blogs.scientificamerican.com. July 11, 2011.

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• To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Book, Men, Artist

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• We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

  Fred Rogers

  Journey, Challenges, Neighbor

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• Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
  His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Dedication, Artist

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