Empathy Quotes - Page 26

I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.

If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.