Empathetic Quotes

• Theres a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Lying
  • Flawed

• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Ambition

• If I want people to be empathetic to my struggle - they don't see hate crimes at the mosque, they don't see people screaming at their cousins, brothers, or sisters who wear a hijab to "go back to your country" - I have to do the same.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • People
  • Crimes
  • Hijab

• Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Nature
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Kind
  • Kindness

• We have a lot to learn from bonobos, because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.

  

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Behavior

• There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

  

  Scott Stossel
  • Personality
  • Anxiety
  • Aspect

• You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Character
  • Desire

• I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Persons
  • Sadistic

• I was trained professionally to connect with people as a therapist. That's job number one, having a empathetic regard towards someone who is sitting right across from you. Being able to pull whatever their needs are, their desires and the things that are troubling them and being able to address that in some way.

  

  William Fitzsimmons
  • People
  • Desire
  • Numbers

• You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Decision
  • Struggle
  • Helping