Quotes About Empathy

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

In this larger conversation about diversity, we want to really show that we're all the same. We are all experiencing the same stories.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

I can learn a lot from reading briefing books and talking to experts, but that pales in comparison to what I can learn from going out and talking to people about what they're actually experiencing and hearing about their ideas.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

We simply keep telling our kids that you have to listen to us, you have to do what we say, but do we take the effort of explaining it to them that why they need to listen to us?

When things go well, people like everything you do. When things don't go well, people look for 1,001 explanations, and they don't understand you're a human being.