Quotes About Empathy

I think if you have a diverse group of friends, you can constantly learn from each other.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

Don't tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don't debate it.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

We need to combat Trump's agenda to make sure he can't divide our families.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

It's not about how big or expensive a present is, it's the thought that is so nice.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.