Empathy Quotes
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
Yann Martel -
For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.
Douglas Hodge
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I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.
Ben Affleck -
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.
Barack Obama -
We were not well. I did not show enough empathy in my message.
Wopke Hoekstra -
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.
Barack Obama
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Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.
Hal Elrod -
I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
Michael K. Williams -
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
Spider Robinson -
A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.
Chris Sacca -
Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.
Dalai Lama -
'All the doctors that have examined you state that you appear to have no friends or family relationships and you are incapable of any sort of empathy. In short…you’re perfect for this job.'
John Twelve Hawks
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It is a confusing time and education has gotten worse so it’s harder to be a well formed young man but generally there has been some progress in terms of cultural empathy.
Nick Waterhouse -
One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.
Alex Blumberg -
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
Seth Godin -
I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone a villain, we are choosing to part with empathy and that can be a slippery slope, both as an actor and a human being.
Bryce Pinkham -
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
Nathan Englander
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Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
Willem Dafoe -
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
Katherine Ellison -
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
Eric Kandel -
Hatred is bred through ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation its mother. Yet, we are born of empathy and so we hope to return.
Christian Picciolini