Quotes About Empathy

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

Whenever best friends get into a fight, I feel like it is always quick to resolve.

If someone is having a bad day, I find you can change it pretty quick by just showing that you care.

I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

I observe people around me, interact with them and try to understand what's on their minds. I also try and include their little quirky mannerisms in my films.

You've got to quit judging people just because they have an 'R' or a 'D' in front of their name. We don't do that in Oklahoma.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

All my life I've felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.

We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream.