Sensibility Quotes - Page 7

• When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

  Barbara Crampton

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Art, Self

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.

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• Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Needs, Intellect, Organs

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Spring, Real, Greek

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Heart, Men

  International Herald Tribune, October 29, 1991.

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• If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, People, Manners

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.38, Ardent Media

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.

  Rick Hilles

  Joy, Everyday, Desire

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• Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

  Will Ferrell

  People, Why Not, Share

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2003.

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

  Paullina Simons

  Writing, Two, Knowing

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• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, Men, People

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.34

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• Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Males, Female

  "Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problem with Women Directors". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

  Jeff Dunham

  Growing Up, People, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

  Eric Roberts

  Directors, Needs, Feminine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

  Rob Corddry

  People, Want, Comedy

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• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  Dana Carvey

  Stars, Impossible, Sometimes

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• I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

  Catie Curtis

  Different, Albums, Want

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• I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Blue, Typical, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

  Bernard Arnault

  Creative, Sides, Management

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• As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

  Catharine Beecher

  People, Common Sense, Soul

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1864). “Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church”, p.212

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• We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Differences, Vision

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Exercise, Past, Race

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Stupid, Intuition, Males

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• I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Thinking, Asking, Today

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