Quotes About Sensitivity

Uno de los hallazgos claros de la economía conductual experimental es que las personas son mucho más sensibles a las pérdidas que a las ganancias.

PC advocates appear to defend the absurd because they see history as a series of unprosecuted crimes that can only be redeemed if we are appropriately sensitive to the legacy of the victims.

ésta es una ciudad donde, en los últimos cuarenta años, los valores de la gente han ido cambiando más rápidamente que en el resto del país. ¿Por qué? Porque aquí están las universidades más grandes y más importantes, y eso lo cambia todo: eso incrementa el número de personas que piensan, que critican y analizan; se vuelven más sensibles y tolerantes.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they're happy; it's a question that can upset them a great deal.

To do liturgy decently in the light of the concerns Paul expressed in 1 Corinthians means that liturgy must be theologically grounded and communally sensitive.

Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

And believe me, you don't want to be around Migraine Mom. I strongly recommend avoiding that subject.

I turned my peeled-apple face to him. I'd make myself look at him. I owed him that. His touch lingered on my neck as though he'd left a handprint of melted light.

There is a lump of desolation beneath the bony dip at my throat. It is no bigger than a coin, this spot, a peculiarly small place to hold such a feeling. I try to shove it to some deeper region, but there it sticks, a fragile skin-thickness from the outside world.

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

Then his proud bearing, his manners, his elegance, his good looks — and who could be altogether insensitive to them? — powerfully suggested to me that here at last I had found someone who came up to my ideal of a friend.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

I'm so busy listening to the heart that I don't even hear when somebody asks me to pass the salt.

prayer makes us more sensitive to the manifestations of institutionalized lies.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

Respect is not just about being polite, it's about having empathy and understanding for others.

Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

You can't just say 'don't be offended' and then say something offensive, man! That's not how it works.

not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Siz iyimserler, bunal?ml? bir insan?n onu neÅŸelendirmeye çal??man?z? istemediÄŸini anlayam?yorsunuz. Bu bizi hasta ediyor.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living things, and at the same time, the art which will enable him to capture that life in a certain specific way. I'm not talking about a pure aesthetics...