Quotes About Empathy

There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people who are working for you, being able to hear them without a sense of threat, to go into those meetings with confidence and not arrogance.

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

The divisiveness that threatens the fabric of our nation - whether due to race, religion, political ideology, gender, sexual orientation, or other - must end.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don't like, or the existence of a gamer who's different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.

People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.

My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.

I've always wanted to make people feel better or feel alright or feel comfortable or not threatened and feel OK in their own skin.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.

People get so frustrated with me, so much so that they've threatened me, they've threatened my family and it just cannot go on, it really can't.

It's a responsibility as a parent to a human and a parent to a dog. Situations can happen, a dog can react if it's feeling threatened or frightened the same as a human would.

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.