Quotes About Empathy

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you're going through.

If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

I will never not take anyone's phone call.

I lost a good friend a few years ago, and it happened quite suddenly. Any event like that leaves you with questions. Would a phone call have made a difference? Did the person know that you were there for them?

The podcast is a bit like a phone call, except you don't say anything.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.

If I were talking to someone, I'd look at their eyes, not at the blemish on the side of their face. But as soon as you open up that photo on a 30-inch monitor, you'd say, 'Oh my gosh, where did that come from?'

Don't attack a girl because you see one photo of her and a guy in public.

I'd become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I'd be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I'd have to just sit there.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.

It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.