Quotes About Empathy

Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.

I know that when people ask me about my boyfriend, they're not disrespectful but just curious.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

Definitely, when anyone asks me what I eat - I think that's the most disrespectful thing. There's no winning with that question.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.

Do we need distance to get close?

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

You have to distance yourself from hate, period.

I grew up loving actors from a distance but still felt so close to them. I feel like to be on the other side right now is one of the biggest opportunities I could ever have.

Usually, when people are sick, you go and help them, but Covid is such that you cannot be around them, but help from a distance. I think that hit me. Some people have nobody to go out and buy things for them, nobody to make any food.

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.

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

In fact, a lot of saas-bahus of today share a distinctive bond of support and understanding. I do feel that's the way it should be.

You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.

I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

I've always liked that idea of a diverse group of audience members sitting together, rubbing up against each other and taking on the life of a culture that doesn't belong to either one of them.