Quotes About Empathy

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

Seek out different perspectives.

When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I have always been an animal lover and I had pet dogs at home. On the day of Diwali, they would be so disturbed and scared that they would hide in a corner and would not come out. I had decided then that I would stop buying crackers on Diwali.

I love pet animals, but I don't have any.

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

I thought that I was a crazy pet owner, but now I realize I'm not so bad.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I just don't 'get' pets.

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'

I love animals, but I don't think I can have pets.

Pets have made us better.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.