Quotes About Empathy

At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just like everybody else.

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

It's an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It's a great time to be alive.

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.

I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,Mark said. Don't tell the story like that, Nedley laughed. What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!