Quotes About Sensitivity

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.

When I made 'Whale Rider' - of course, I'm not Maori and have no business, as a white girl, telling people how to be in this movie - I started by learning the language, as best I could.

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Yeah, I worked with a chef when I first got into the league. We did all my blood work and found out exactly what I'm sensitive to, what I'm deficient in, what my body needs. I had to cut out a lot of things - chicken, tuna, wheat, and soy.

In a rally car when you put a 20 kg spare wheel in a car which is weighing 1,300 kg, you feel it.

A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.

I'm honestly offended whenever someone says I'm being harsh.

Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.

Whereas, in the personal realm, Sharon is a very sensitive person whose eyes often grow moist, in the national realm, he is entirely without emotions.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I'm Jamaican, so I come from a very whip with two belts background - being sensitive isn't really part of my culture.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

There are different ways to lead throughout a practice or a year. Whatever that moment needs is something I've always tried to be ready to do.