sensitivity quotes

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

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

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.