Quotes About Sensitivity

We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.

Equanimity is a quality of being centered in yourself, though at the same time being exquisitely sensitive to the forces that are at work all around, or else you will be vulnerable to being tossed around by the sorts of unexpected waves that crash in on every life.

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

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

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

I don't share photos of people grieving leaving a funeral or outside of a hospital when a loved one is sick... You can do your job and have an opinion and have it be strong, but not be hurtful or cruel.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

We all know that little words or phrases can mean a lot, yet so few of us know just what to say. Phrases, such as 'chin up,' or 'it could be worse,' usually have the opposite effect; they feel tired and impersonal, even dismissive.

I had spend a lot of time looking at things intellectually, coming from the head, let's say, rather than the heart, and saying things that way. Turns of phrases became paramount to any kind of feeling behind them, which is not to say they were all devoid of that.

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

I'm so indecisive that I can't pick a favorite color, and I'm allergic to 12 things.

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

I would be in a room full of people being loud and running around, and I'd be in the corner just playing with the wall. So I was very, very quiet, but when I really got into the arts, that opened me up.