Quotes About Sensitivity

Una persona muy emocionada no tiene tiempo de notar la emoción de quien produce la suya".

if we were organisms so sensitive that a single atom, or even a few atoms, could make a perceptible impression on our senses – Heavens, what would life be like! To stress one point: an organism of that kind would most certainly not be capable of developing the kind of orderly thought which, after passing through a long sequence of earlier stages, ultimately results in forming, among many other ideas, the idea of an atom.

You intended Freedom, Growth and Joy. This triad of intentions, if you are sensitive to the way you are feeling, will keep you moving on the perfect path of evolution. These Core intentions that are within you -- if you pay attention to the way that you feel -- will keep you moving joyfully forward, so that your growth is steady, so that your joy is constant, so that your freedom is assured Abraham-- G 2/17/91

Being a guest in someone else's home and slowly beginning to suspect that you have done something wrong, something of which you were not previously aware, is how it feels to have a dawning understanding of what it means to be white in this world.

Helen felt her face flush. She discovered that she could not meet Dane's gaze. As long as he did not look at her, she was all right. Even while she was touching him, massaging the muscles of his back, she could control her response to him. But now, when she tried to look into the eyes that mirrored his soul, she flinched.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

No one should interfere in the religion of another.

Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.

I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

How you communicate while criticising a film is important. Don't pass any hurtful remarks.

I sound like a crazy person... but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment to be alive. I want them to remember me.

I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

Im the person who cries at the drop of a hat, whos always reminding everybody to be kind, whos bringing 40 people together for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I keep trying to write the crowd-pleasing slavery joke and the crowd-pleasing reparations joke, but any time you mention slavery or reparations in any detail, it seems to bum lots of people out. That's a challenge I keep putting in front of myself.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

I think it is so important to have voices in the decision-making process that are sensitive to the groups that your show or your production represents. In the case of 'Kim's Convenience,' that was Korean Canadians, that was East Asian Canadians, and we rightly felt like we didn't have that voice in the writers' room or at the creators' table.

My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.

I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.