Quotes About Perspective

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.