Quotes About Empathy

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.

I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don't know what's in their briefcase or purse.

In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of what people go through. There is so much bad in the world, and I think that acting it out and exploring it almost helps you deal with it.

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

I would say get to know somebody who isn't exactly like you and doesn't come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up. Finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren't exactly like you.

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

There's a road that runs through our humanity and it traverses political and partisan lines, and my job as a U.S. senator is to do everything I can to point to that road that connects our collective humanity and to push forward legislation that's good for everybody.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

I always pull over for people who need a push.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.