Quotes About Sensitivity

As usual, his expression was distracted but intense, as if listening to the world whispering something that riled him.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "I feel sorry for the man who can't feel the whip when it is laid on the other man's back.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

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

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice.

Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.

Your intuitive factor is what picks up other peoples vibration

We can argue about their intelligence (which we would likely define in human-centric terms anyway), their ability to understand human language, or even the extent to which they really understand and know the world around them, but there's no argument that can convincingly show that animals don't feel pain, and that they have no interest in avoiding that pain. If anything, animals are more sensitive to the world around them than we are, given their heightened sensory abilities.

Many people can see the pain of others but can not feel it till they are there

whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example...

I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.

Mitrofanii frowned—he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. "Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth." Or, "I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth."

For example, he suggested that every leader should be required to take a course called "As Life Happens," to learn how to sensitively manage an employee whose personal life might be interfering with their work obligations. Niekerk recalled that colleagues who read his paper said that it was among the best analyses they had seen of the cultural challenges that were so obviously plaguing the company at its twentieth anniversary.

Emma wouldn't wear anything the least bit feminine. Putting on a dress usually required a negotiation of Middle East sensitivity, with often an equally violent result.

Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.