Quotes About Sensitivity

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

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

I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

penetrates your iris, tenderest of sphincters

Remember this: It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.

Napravila bih pauzu svaki put kada bi me neka ideja pogodila svojom istinitoscu, ili kad bi me neka recenica gusila mirnom ostrinom. Priznajem: pucala sam od smeha, kao sto sam I poskakivala od sramezljivosti.

WAITRESS 2 Then, the topper . . . an elbow to the ribs . . . "Hey, you make it?" Really sensitive, like we've got a fucking recipe for an orgasm!

How many people from the Mideast take a cultural sensitivity class before they come to America? Why is it always us who have to be sensitive to other cultures? Works both ways.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.