Quotes About Empathy

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, 'Let me help you. I've been there before.'

I know every part of their lives. I know about their animals; if they've got a dog, I know its name. My players love their dogs. I know about their partners; I know if they go to the cinema - it's the detail you need to be successful. If they have an ice cream, I know about it.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

When you get a blessing, you pass it on.

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

I really believe that if you come across something in life that could improve the life of someone else, you should pass it on.

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, 'My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch 'Modern Family.'

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.