Quotes About Sensitivity

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.

My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

One of the things The WB has about it that a lot of other networks don't is they lead with their heart.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you.

Sensitive people find it harder to stick around.

It's also true that sometimes people felt things and, because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned. The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it - just to name it - must have been like trying to catch something invisible. (pg 107)

For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But my personal experience had shown me that most of the Chinese people remained kind, sensitive, and compassionate even though the cruel reality of the system under which they had to live compelled them to lie and pretend.

At such times [drunk] all the doors of a woman's being are opened. The sentinels relax and a kind word is as powerful as gold or love.

most of the students were aware of their place in time and society, sensitive to the fact that an exploding technology hadn't obliterated the human ability to make mistakes. It was important for them to be acutely aware of situations that could cause harm or death to their patients and waste their hard-earned incomes on malpractice settlements.

beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

I've been crying for eight hours now, and he hasn't even noticed. I know, said Julie. When Alexandra was two I cried for eight months and she never noticed.

Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much.

When he pressed his lips to her heart, she wanted to weep.