Quotes About Sensitivity

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

In a reading, I communicate what I see, what I hear and what I feel. It's as simple as that.

I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.

It's never good to turn to comparisons with Nazis.

One thing is for sure: that women are far more compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and emotional in comparison to men.

I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we do a project and people receive our help, we may think that they are getting benefited, but is this what they really wanted?

When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.