Quotes About Empathy

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

That's part of the problem with these conflicts. We're not close enough to it. If we don't try to get really close to what these guys - men, women, Americans, and now, with this Arab Revolution, young Arab men, Young Egyptians and Libyans - are experiencing, you don't understand the world, essentially.

In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.

The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

As a nation, it's time to put politics aside and do the right thing to protect innocent little babies.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

I would never say I think divorce is wrong. After seeing what my parents went through, I would never want them to stay together just because they think it's the right thing to do.

We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It's not that I do it because it's the right thing: I do it because I want do it.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.

I like to think I'm a good, kind person who does the right thing, but I don't ever feel sorry for someone who didn't get the part that I got. Not for one second.

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who loves a good laugh. Both sides are sincere, and both are necessary, for Spielberg knows he can't feel good about himself unless everyone else feels the same way.

If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.

I think you've still got to try to be good, day-to-day. You see a granny, you hold the door open for her. You just try to do the right thing. I don't know if that makes you a saint or the greatest guy in the world, but trying is a start.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

Giving back to those who are less fortunate shows great character and is the right thing to do.

I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.

It's the right thing to do to help out and give your time, I think that's something that everybody's got the same amount of time and it's, how do you use that time.