Quotes About Empathy

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

When I see two guys kissing, I'm like, how come I can't kiss one of those guys? They look like they're having a good time.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

Most of the time, leaders should laugh at themselves rather than others.

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.