Sensitivity Quotes

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Money
  • Lines
  • Parallels

• Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Mean
  • Acting
  • Actors

• Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Sometimes
  • Tired
  • Poetic

• Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Why
  • Insecurity
  • Vulnerability

• ...but Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with "Hiccup copped it. SORRY," and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Strong
  • Not
  • Tact

• There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Character
  • Woman
  • Strength

• There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • Perfect
  • Ugly
  • Tattooed

• I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Cry
  • Sensitivity

• Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Warmth
  • Sensitivity
  • Fondness

• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Sensitivity
  • Indicates
  • Inversion

• The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Quality
  • Moral
  • Balance

• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Signs
  • Sensitivity
  • Disoders

• If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Discipline

• I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Humor
  • Sexy
  • Sensitivity

• Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Spiritual

• My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Person
  • Weakness
  • Sensitivity

• If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

  

  Jose Carreras
  • Man
  • Artist
  • Same

• I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Life
  • Gift
  • Alertness

• It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Public
  • Arguments
  • Humanitarian

• Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

  

  Carlos Gavito
  • Feelings
  • Steps
  • Gymnastics

• I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Reality
  • Spiritual
  • Body

• The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

  

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • Cultural
  • Sensitivity
  • Tenor

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