Sensitivity Quotes - Page 2

• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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• It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

  Maurice Barres

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Organization, Long, Individuality

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Order, Differences

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• To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Acceptance, Love Is, Understanding

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Special, Kind

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• It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("Markings"), (p. 438), 1973.

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• Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

  Meg Greenfield

  Skins, Kind, Humans

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• Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

  Bob Dylan

  Sensitive

  Bob Dylan (2017). “Lyrics 1961 - 2012: Nouvelle édition augmentée”, p.260, Fayard

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• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Reduction, Given

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• The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Should Have, Unity

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• Beautiful people do not just happen

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

  Jessica Chastain

  Real, Weakness, Cry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

  Christopher Reeve

  People, Awareness Of Others, Needs

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• You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

  Joni Mitchell

  Music, Song, Writing

  "If You Seek a Moment of Clarity While Complaining, You Just Might Stop Complaining" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2012.

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• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Acoustics

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• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anger, Heart, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

  George Orwell

  Safe, Emotion, Life Is

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  Camille Paglia

  Masculinity, Elusive, Manhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

  Betty Dodson

  Girlfriend, Men, Dating

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• The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

  Max Beerbohm

  Art, Vitality, Sensitive

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Seven Men”, p.15, The Floating Press

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• The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Morality

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

  Edouard Manet

  Color, Taste, Matter

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

  Neal Boortz

  Too Much, Deals

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.47, Taylor Trade Publishing

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