Quotes About Empathy

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.

When I was young, I was picked on for something that today I feel is amazing. One thing about me connects millions of people around the world. And it's my skin condition - vitiligo.

My advice to anyone being picked on for being different or for working towards a dream is to remember it's never personal. These people don't actually dislike you at heart. They're just going through difficult things in their own personal lives.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

I've always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I'd try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I've always tried to be a uniter.

If there's someone getting picked on, be nice to them and be helpful to them.

A group of girls didn't like me and picked on me on a daily basis.

I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

What hurts me, and always had done, is picking teams and having to leave players out.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Everyone in my life who is important, they feed me humble pie.

My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.