Quotes About Empathy

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

What's important is to listen before you react.

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.

I react emotionally to everything!

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.

No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilty, and we know we also get angry when we feel guilty.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

It's very validating to have people who do what you do react to a song in a cool way.

I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react.