Quotes About Empathy

I've done my fair share of fundraising over the years, and I know how difficult that can be, so I could only imagine people's reaction when I was asking them to part with their hard-earned cash for a movie.

It's just great that I can see the fans looking at who I am, Jorginho the player, and at the same time I'm really happy to look at them and see their reaction and feel their support.

You can feel how the audiences react. For us, it's about the performance and the reaction. We feed off the energy. And no matter how enthusiastic they are, we can tell if we're playing well or not.

If I try to act cool and do things that get a positive reaction, then I'm not doing anything for the person I'm in the ring with.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

I learnt how acting is more about listening to the other person; it is about reaction. You learn to be a foil, and that helped when it came to directing.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

It's important as an actor to understand, whatever you do, you're going to have reactions from all kinds of different people, and be OK with that.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

I read a lot of war literature.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.