Quotes About Understanding

We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

There's a power in empathy.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Watching the news, there seems to be an empathy failure and miscommunication.

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

I think my biggest role as a parent is teaching empathy.

Employ empathy.

You have to listen to the people who employ you.

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.

I think people have to understand that 'empowering' for women doesn't mean negating men.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

We want to encourage people to talk to one another.