Quotes About Sensitivity

I pride myself on not making people's experience shittier.

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.

Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say "I don't like you" unless that person has been horrible to you.

A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

Unfortunately, magnanimity is often seen as weakness by those on the receiving end. It's easy to be sensitive, tolerant, and multicultural--it's the default mode of the age---yet, when you persist in being sensitive to the insensitive, tolerant of the intolerant, and impeccably multicultural about the avowedly unicultural, don't be surprised if they take it for weakness.

Contemporary Big Government is like a widget factory that no longer makes widgets but holds sensitivity training sessions all day long.

Every place you injure adds that patch to your consciousness. You grow more alive.

there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied. The difference between the two ways of seeing is the difference between walking with and without a camera. When I walk with a camera I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut.

actitud fundamental de esta oración es la veneración a Dios y la sensibilidad para su presencia permanente.

I do have a heart, you see. I've got plenty of heart. I'm a fucking sentimental guy – once you get to know me. Show me a hurt puppy, or a long-distance telephone service commercial, or a film retrospective of Ali fights or Lou Gehrig's last speech and I'll weep real tears. I am a bastard, when crossed, though, no question.

After level of skills, it's how sensitive you are to criticism and perceived insult — and how well you can give it right back — that determines your place in the food chain.

Todo el mundo debería saber hacer una tortilla francesa. Cocinar huevos es un comienzo tan bueno como cualquier otro, porque es la primera comida del día y porque el proceso de aprender a hacer una tortilla, para mí, no es solo una técnica, sino una forja de carácter. La técnica de la tortilla enseña delicadeza, necesariamente; comprender lo que sucede en tu sartén y saber actuar en consecuencia requiere cierta sensibilidad.

As a child you are in some ways more acutely aware of what people feel about one another than you are when childhood has come to an end.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

Daher ist die Dichtkunst Sache von phantasiebegabten oder von leidenschaftlichen Naturen; die einen sind wandlungsfähig, die anderen stark erregbar.

Look, said Mary Ann evenly, if I think you're really attractive, there must be plenty of men in this town who feel the same way. Yeah, said Michael ruefully. Size queens. Oh, don't be silly! Sometimes Michael was sensitive about the dumbest things. He's at least five nine, thought Mary Ann. That's tall enough for anybody.

The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself.

I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.