Quotes About Sensitivity

The person whose stomach is full does not know what a hungry person feels.

During the first few days a total of forty-three officers would visit the crime scene, looking for weapons and other evidence. In searching the loft above the living room, Sergeant Mike McGann found a film can containing a roll of video-tape. Sergeant Ed Henderson took it to the Police Academy, which had screening facilities. The film showed Sharon and Roman Polanski making love. With a certain delicacy, the tape was not booked into evidence but was returned to the loft where it had been found.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Em suma, quero chegar ao ponto em que digam de minha obra: este homem sente profundamente, e este homem sente delicadamente.

And one would almost conclude that some people have cauterized certain sensitive nerves within themselves - especially those which, combined, are called conscience. Well, I pity them - in my opinion they travel through life without a compass. One might suppose that the love for humanity which is the foundation of everything should be in every human being.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' .

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Unbidden, the sadness I'd felt from Senora washed through me, and I wanted to squirm up to her and lick her palms and make her happy again. Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.

Salespeople on commission, for example, are seldom sensitive to the costs of the sales they produce.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.

It hurts to care; the courage to care is the profoundest courage there is.

My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Or we can picture God as a caring parent with traits with love, generosity, and sensitivity- an infinite Being who personally interacts with and responds to creation. Accordingly, God considers prayers much as a wise parent might consider requests from a child.

On the other hand, if the subject had nothing to do but think about his pain (as is true in many hospitals and nursing homes), he showed much greater sensitivity.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.