Words matter. These are the best Sentient Quotes from famous people such as Roy Conli, Kat Von D, Gore Verbinski, Douglas Kennedy, Amy Gerstler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I love about ‘Big Hero 6’, with Baymax himself – this sentient creature who’s actually a learning robot – with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.
On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who’s genuinely interested in poetry… not scared of it… seems a godsend.
To tell you the truth, I believe everything – tigers, trees, stones – are sentient in one way or another. You’d never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, ‘Don’t get your hopes up,’ you’re fighting ancient genetic programming.
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated – sometimes repelled – by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy’s, I remember vividly.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Look, when AIs come up, they’re not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.
It’s only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It’s going to happen because we’re already slaves to all of it.
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales – sentient life – insects, reptiles.
Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
