Quotes About Empathy

If people stay in their own little bubbles, none of us will reach our full potential.

My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

We all need to make sure that we fully understand our country.

Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on others.

As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.

I love working with women directors because of their emotional functionality and can undeniably connect with them on a fairly personal level.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.

Education should be a fundamental human right.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Look, fundamentally the more you know about someone, the better you can communicate with them at a human level, or a mass-communication-advertising level.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

At their core, liberals assume that humans are fundamentally good and decent. This means that we believe that people are trying the best they can to make it and only ask for help when they really need it.

What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.

I remember watching that scene in 'My Girl' where Anna Chlumsky cries at a funeral. I would cry with her and be like, 'Yeah, I think I could do that. I could do a funeral scene.'

When I go out with my mates I'm never the centre of attention. Most of them, and they're probably right, keep telling me they're funnier than I am and I'm nicking their life.

My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold.

Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying…. She

You and I are like two people . . .' He paused and began again more quickly: 'Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read Monkey's Soap; if you look back when you've passed it's Needs no Rinsing. . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.

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