Quotes About Empathy

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.

You can always tell a great photographer because they make you feel super-relaxed.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.

I don't share photos of people grieving leaving a funeral or outside of a hospital when a loved one is sick... You can do your job and have an opinion and have it be strong, but not be hurtful or cruel.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

We all know that little words or phrases can mean a lot, yet so few of us know just what to say. Phrases, such as 'chin up,' or 'it could be worse,' usually have the opposite effect; they feel tired and impersonal, even dismissive.

My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other.

Why aren't we talking about it in health classes in school? That's just as important as learning about physical health and nutrition. Why aren't we learning about our minds and our mental health and mental illnesses? I just think that it's something that very much needs to go hand in hand.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

I keep myself safe both physically and emotionally in my working environment by 'being one of the boys.' In my head, subconsciously, that was my safe place.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.