Empathy Quotes
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Any effective treatment—effective beyond placebo that is—will generate a specific effect plus a placebo effect, provided that clinicians administer it with sufficient time, dedication, compassion and empathy.
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Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
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Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
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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.
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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
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I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.
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The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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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.
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For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.
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I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
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I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
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I'd traded my natural empathy for acceptance. I confused hate and intimidation with passion, fear with respect....When I reconnected with the empathy I had as a child and accepted compassion from others when I probably least deserved it, the hate disintegrated and my warped ideology stopped making sense.
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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.
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I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.
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A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.
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One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
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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.
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One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.
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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.
