Quotes About Empathy

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

I understand we love to talk about black girl magic, but sometimes that is a term that allows people to put us in this character like we're not real people that feel real things.

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I don't like the term 'colour-blind' - because I don't want people to be blind to my colour.

There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses, who often work through the night with people, not only suffering from a terminal illness but their families, they're just extraordinary people.

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Quarantine has really affected me in terms of thinking about what the rest of the world is going through and what isolation within a small space might be like.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.