Quotes About Empathy

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

I'm good at reading people.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

Reading the script, I started feeling very deeply bad for Freddie. Between his friends, his partners, and his woman, he was catching a hard time. 'Freddie's Dead' came to me immediately.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

I love reading books that can break my heart.

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

As anyone who reads Marvel comics will tell you, it's actually more important that you understand the people that are inside the mask, as opposed to the mask and the cowl or anything else like that.

I have no trouble saying, as the copy reads, about how caring nurses are, because it's true.

Having a baby makes me grateful that I work for a company that does give you four months' leave. And my heart breaks for women that don't get that time with their child. As a mom, you're just not ready to go back immediately - physically, you can't. You just need some time not only to bond, but you need some time to heal.

When in a relationship, you are responsible for another person, too. I don't want to commit unless I am absolutely ready.

I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.

Real living is living for others.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.