Quotes About Empathy

I never meant to antagonize anyone.

You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.

Haverford was there for me and taught me what it meant to be a human being.

I feel some people are not meant to be together but that doesn't mean they are bad.

Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.

My love is not measured in reciprocity. That's not the way I learned love.

It's all about respect. I'm not going to treat a woman like a piece of meat.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

People like me get to grow up and fail and learn. People who grow up like Meek should get that opportunity, too.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

One of the things that really drives me as an actor is to be able to to provide some kind of positive resonance with people, and every project, I hope someone takes something positive from it.

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

Everyone can resonate with love.

But if you can empathise with a character and if you can emotionally resonate with that character and understand their emotional journey, I think you are home.

If you do right by people, and you talk to the basic issues most people care about and have a vision for how we can achieve so much more as a country, as a community, I believe that resonates with people.