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Quotes About Perceptive

One more preference enters into the identification of type—the choice between the perceptive attitude and the judging attitude as a way of life, a method of dealing with the world around us.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
This preference makes the difference between the judging people, who order their lives, and the perceptive people, who just live them. Both attitudes have merit.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
Maruman does not loll.
~ Isobelle Carmody
You are quick to catch the author's intentions and nothing escapes you
~ Italo Calvino
Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.
~ Kiana Tom
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
~ Lawrence Clark Powell
Spike is sensitive not only in that he is easily hurt but also in the "feminine" way of being attuned to situations, relationships, and underlying emotions, as his frequently perceptive comments demonstrate. this ability to articulate his emotions also explains why his character fits so well into "Buffy", a show that consistently values this trait...
~ Unknown
He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.
~ Louise Penny
I have a good ear for languages.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.
~ Christine McVie
I'm a good listener.
~ Retief Goosen
Sapient'? Whatever is that?" " 'Tis a clever word meaning wise. Which is a thing you would know if you was sapient yourself.
~ Diane Setterfield
Is your badness so varied that it is still delightful? I expect anything gets boring after a while.' He looked at her with interest. 'How perceptive you are. It takes a good deal of effort to keep badness from being boring. One must seek out new experiences and challenges. Our mutual friends may think I have an easy life, but being notorious is grueling work after a few years.
~ Madeline Hunter
They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.
~ Madeline Miller
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
~ Chief Joseph
She comes out with things, you know, that keep you pondering for hours. There's really something quite Pythian about her!
~ Marcel Proust
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
~ Michael Morpurgo
WHILE EACH SPIRITED CHILD IS UNIQUE, most are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change. Many, but not all, possess four additional "bonus" characteristics: aspects of their personality that can make being their parent even more challenging.
~ Unknown
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.
~ Mike Gayle
Una persona inteligente e irreflexiva es una de las cosas más aterradoras que existen.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
~ Patti Smith
I have this special ability to see the fault, the defect, the thing that is wrong with any person, place, thing or situation. I see right to the core of the problem. Not only can I see it, I need to tell you about it because I'm sure you want to know.
~ Unknown