Quotes About Empathy

When I call for a standard of love, I am asking us all to listen to our hearts, of course. But also to think clearly, look at the facts, and do difficult things when necessary, so that we can truly lift people up and bring them together.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

There's a lot of racism around. I am always puzzled when people have that attitude. I went to a place where people were nice to me. It was something that stuck with me. I learned to treat people the same.

I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

People's intolerance, I find puzzling.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

You can disagree with somebody and still think they're qualified.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.

One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.

Power and money are not what truly matter, qualities of heart matter more.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age... It's the qualities of their character.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

Everyone has friends or people they know, while they aren't definitively sociopaths, they have sociopathic qualities.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.