Empathy Quotes
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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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In my work as an actor, I have been given even greater insights and have been guided towards empathy and a consciousness of those who are less fortunate.
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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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I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
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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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Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
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I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.
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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
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People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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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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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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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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Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.
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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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Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
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Photography is an empathy towards the world.
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It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.
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I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.
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Leadership is about empathy.
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Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
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It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.
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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.
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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.
