Quotes About Empathy

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.

The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

Empowering women is one of the most important things we - and indeed, every business - can do.

I was with Nightwish for such a long time that I still feel the band as a part of myself. I was one of the most important elements in Nightwish for nine years, and the band was an essential part of myself too.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.