Empathy Quotes
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Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.
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My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together.
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I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.
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The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.
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Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.
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I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.
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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
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What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.
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There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.
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I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.
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I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
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This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
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Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.
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Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name.
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I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
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I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
