Quotes About Empathy

You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

This polymath thinker is what IDEO's Tim Brown has called a "T-Shaped Person." T-shaped people have innate technical skills, along with empathy, curiosity, and great observational skills. "They have a principle skill that describes the vertical leg of the 'T'—they're mechanical engineers or industrial designers. But they are so empathetic that they can branch out into other skills, such as anthropology, and do them as well.

Stories are not just entertainment, not to me. A story records and transmits the experience of being human. It teaches us what it's like to be who we are. Nothing but art can do this. There is no science that can capture the inner life. No words can describe it directly. We can only speak of it in metaphors. We can only say: it's like this—this story, this picture, this song.

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man." I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.

The Good World Project. This too made Winter smile his wintry smile. "To silence the voices of hate that divide us—this is not controversial, this is simply the right thing to do. To direct the resources of all nations toward humanity's shared objectives—this is not controversial. It's the right thing to do. To heal the planet from the wounds inflicted on her . . .

But somehow, after you talked to her for a while, after you got to know her, she started to look really awesome. I thought so anyway. After you found out how warm she was, how kind, how interested she was in what other people had to say. It changed the way she looked . . . I don't really know how to describe it.

Beth was always warm and interested in what you were saying. She made you feel like you were the only person in the world she cared about.

I bet if you ask them, you'd find out they have moms too. Nicki and Jim. Meredith. They maybe all have moms." "Maybe even you," I said. "Well let's not jump to conclusions," Palmer drawled.

She was—I'm not sure how to best describe it—a receiving presence, not a giving one. You talked to her . She listened. Pretty soon, you found you had told her everything about yourself—and you felt better for it too. She had a wonderful soothing way about her. But she hadn't told you anything, nothing at all.

I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals. For what was this but the very cruelty inflicted upon our Lord?," John Henry Newman

The worst thing you can be in this job is partial, invested. You just have to get good at turning that off. You have to see the bodies as bodies, not as people. They were people once, of course, fuelled by food and water, driven by electrical impulses. But then, for whatever reason, the power got turned off. The lights went out. They were transformed into meat.

see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

So although they might stare at us and ask, 'Who are these alien people?' We could reply, 'We are you, What you chose to become.

I do tend to like people in practice, even though I've built an airtight

I wanted to understand her. I wanted her, more dubiously, to understand me .

What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.

How can I make your difficult life more tolerable?" "Just be nice to me, I guess? My brain doesn't work.

The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin