Quotes About Sensitivity

Empathy, at its core, is knowing how not to hurt each other.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear. . . . If I 'try' to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

As purchasers, how often do we end by using money as a substitute for what we fear is insufficient thoughtfulness and sensitivity?—by deciding, at the end of a lengthy shopping excursion, to buy expensive presents for our loved ones simply because we cannot think of that one simple gift that would be modest in price but perfectly intimate in effect.

A vegetarian, the führer was sensitive to the feelings of animals and remarked: "The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would do well to turn its attention to the sportsmen themselves."6 As the war and the Holocaust would prove, he had no such sensitivity to humans.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.

They hear drums, we hear music.

You touch a safe the way you touch a woman," he

it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

Not for the first time, Aidan reflected that those titillated by horror were least likely to have ever experienced it personally.

It has been difficult because I am physically there. But when it is something so sensitive, with your brain and your skull, it does probably make it a little bit easier to accept you are not going to play again, because it could be life-threatening. So that has definitely made it easier.

When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and I am known for getting a little bit emotional at times.

I certainly don't know a lot of anti-Semitic people, but I've got plenty of friends that have a whole bunch of Jew jokes up their sleeve, and every time it's relevant, it will come up.

Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.

I don't want this to sound racist, but most Orientals are nonconfrontational. They'll let things slide. I'm not like that.

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothers get the feeling that talking to their daughters can be like walking on eggshells: they have to watch every word.

I'm so emotional when it comes to even the smallest thing.

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.