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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. -- Richard Russo
I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive. -- Ryan Reynolds
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally. -- Alain Resnais
I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset. -- Ashley Judd
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. -- Christopher Meloni
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. -- Samuel Alexander
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. -- Michael Morpurgo
Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss. -- Naomie Harris
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. -- John Hodgman
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher. -- Karen Hesse
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. -- Douglas Sirk
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s. -- Alan Moore
But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine. -- Laura Bush
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. -- Robert Creeley
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.' -- Cesar Romero
It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain. -- Mary Roach
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being. -- Natalie Babbitt
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. -- George Boole
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. -- Ansel Adams
I've enjoyed appearing in Atlantic City. East Coast audiences are a bit brighter than Las Vegas audiences. I think most entertainers will tell you the same thing. The East Coast audiences are more perceptive - especially when it comes to a performer with a theatrical background. -- Anthony Newley
In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of what people go through. There is so much bad in the world, and I think that acting it out and exploring it almost helps you deal with it. -- Rita Volk
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch. -- Aaron Staton
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. -- Thomas Szasz
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive -- Lee Child
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated -- Cynthia Leive
Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them. -- Buck Brannaman
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. -- Michael Chabon
To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life. -- Elizabeth Goudge
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. -- Thomas Harris
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself. -- Barbara Walters
Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum. -- James Alan Gardner
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Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. -- Jon Pareles
I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. -- Irene Hunt
Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind. -- Connie Stevens
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise. -- Peter Behrens
Some may say I'm perceptive" "And what would you say?" I ask, my voice edgy, tired of being toyed with. "I'd say I agree. -- Alyson Noel
You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence. -- Pooja Ruprell
A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving. -- Balroop Singh
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl. -- J. D. Salinger
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties. -- Confucius
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images. -- Minor White
The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together. -- Rudolf Steiner
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience. -- Herbert
As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way. -- Frederick Lenz
As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way. -- Frederick Lenz

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