#sensitivity

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#any #constantly #disservice #ego #get

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

— Ang Lee

#lines #meet #money #parallel #sensitivity

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

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

#art #balance #contrast #formal #good

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#clarity #complaining #contribute #could #emotional

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. ↗

— Holly Near

#blessing #extraordinary #kind #pain #real

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#into #manhood #sensitivity

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

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

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. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#death #dumb #evolution #higher #nothing

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#comes #counsellor #enforcing #good #i