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• Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Distance

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• You have no sensitivity that your soul shall leave in the subtle body and that your subtle body is as sophisticated as anything in the universe can be. So unless you produce in yourself elegance, grace, sophisticatedness in your mind, manners and attitude, and unless you come from the infinite altitude, and ascend to that altitude, you cannot descend in love. The higher is your being, the deeper is the love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Attitude

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• Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.

  Philip Kitcher

  Reading, Together, Adults

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

  Doris Humphrey

  Imagination, Feelings, Logical

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Small Changes, Order, Breathing

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• He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

  Ruth Draper

  Sensitive Person, Type, Said

  Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”

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• My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

  John Turturro

  Thinking, Actors, Levels

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• Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

  Cary Grant

  Wise, Taste, Enough

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Mean, Karate, Sensitive

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• There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Moving, Thinking, Soul

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• Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. A lot of people told me that leaving L.A. and moving to Volcano (district of the Big Island) would ruin my career, but that's my kuleana, my business.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Moving, Character, Islands

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• Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety

  "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

  Carlos Gavito

  Gymnastics, Feelings, Steps

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• Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Meditation, Serenity

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• Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Light, Brain, Done

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.39, Rodale

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• Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

  William Safire

  Tired, Needs, Nuance

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Insanity, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Skills, Musician

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

  Jay Griffiths

  Schedules, Measurement, Emotion

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Weather, Meteorology

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• Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Unawareness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

  Georges Braque

  Technique

  Essay by Dora Vallier in Cahiers d'Art (Paris), p. 16, 1954.

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• In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Attitude, Order, Discipline

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Believe, Order

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• The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Generosity, Envy

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