#sensibility

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#crime #insensibility #much #sensibility #too

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #sons #family

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

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Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #love #marianne-dashwood #quote #sense-sensibility

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did. ↗

— Adele

#deeper #definitely #did #drew #first

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved. ↗

— Bruce Davison

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Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#deferred #judgment #men #often #own

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. ↗

— John Grierson

#corporate #cultivation #fact #in fact #lines