Sensitivity Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

  Luci Swindoll

  Balance, Looks, Purpose

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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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• I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. I'm a huge supporter of on-site child care. You need much more sensitivity in the workplace to the challenges young women go through in trying to do two very difficult jobs well.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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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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• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  Rachel Cusk

  Important, Fundamentals, Emotion

  "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Ego, Humanity

  "Mastering the Machine". Interview with John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 25, 2011.

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• An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

  Christopher Fry

  Writing, Artist, Zest

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• This is what happens with a breakthrough.  The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.  Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

  Gwen Ifill

  Hard Work, Doors, Broken

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Educational, Dull

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.109, Penguin

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• Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

  Rene Carayol

  Education, Caring, People

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• The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.

  Thoraya Obaid

  Country, Determination, Unique

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• Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.

  Lester Holt

  Jobs, Military, Thinking

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• Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

  Isabelle Holland

  Way, Taste, Publicity

  Isabelle Holland (1982). “Moncrieff: a novel”

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• I always say people would rather be nice than right. I like to be nice too, but come on. People frequently ask me, what is my definition of politically correct. My answer is always the same: the elevation of sensitivity over truth. People would rather be nice than right, rather be sensitive than true. Well, being nice and sensitive are important, but they're not more important than being right; they're not more important than the truth.

  Bill Maher

  Nice, People, Important

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• A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.

  Marie Winn

  Real, People, Events

  Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books

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• There's so much with my character in Dredd that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Character, Thinking, Imagine

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks NOBODY WALKS, What Drew Her to Lena Dunham’s Script, the Film’s Themes of Sexual Energy and Expression and Its Moral Gray Area". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 11, 2012.

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• The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Imagination, Solitude, Poet

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• if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you must keep to yourself. Even if you think you are giving their lack of height a positive spin, you aren't. 'You always seem larger than life in photos, but it's nice to see that in person you're just like us' might seem like a compliment, but what a star hears is 'You're stumpy, and you will lose jobs to taller people.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Stars, Nice

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• You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

  Peter Weir

  Certain, Filmmaker

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

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• Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Book, Reading, Home

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• Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

  Neil Diamond

  Mean, Discipline, Acting

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

  Johan Huizinga

  Spiritual, History, Judging

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