Sensitivity Quotes - Page 7

• I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Men, Sides

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• To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Anxiety

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• You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Fall, Artist

  "Kid Cudi wants you to readjust your mind with inspirational words from JFK" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. August 7, 2015.

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• Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

  Rollo May

  Self, Order, Vision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Past, Issues, Political

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

  Dave Ulrich

  Dedication, People, Leader

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.

  William J. Clinton

  Hands, People, Challenges

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Expression, Color

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• Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?

  Gerald Brommer

  Artist, Ideas, Personality

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• How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.

  Kris Carr

  Issues, Gluten, Return

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• I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.

  Russell D. Moore

  People, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Thank God, Skins, Heavy

  Ingrid Bergman, Alan Burgess (1980). “Ingrid Bergman: My Story”, Michael Joseph

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• I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mother, Children, Advice

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• Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

  A. O. Scott

  History, Cost, Pearls

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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  Carl Paladino

  Fall, Kids, People

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• Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Thinking, Practice

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• Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciate, Way, Sensitive

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• The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you'll become more toxic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Toxic

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• Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

  Preet Bharara

  Cyber Attacks, Law, Enforcement

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• When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Children, Buddhism

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• Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Long, Survival

  "Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. 2004.

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• Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Unique, Understanding, Solitude

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Focus, Energy, Surrender

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