Marie Forleo
Entrepreneur, Author
"Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up."
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Sensitivity
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jeff Buckley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom"
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft"
Ang Lee
Director, Producer
"Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
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"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe."
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"To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now."
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"There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all"
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