Quotes About Empathy

My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they still don't understand. So maybe they can also educate themselves as well.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.

Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different.

It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.

I've always been a champion of love.

When you win by three touchdowns in a state championship and you've got people who can't appreciate that? That's really sad.

I support Kam Chancellor as a person.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

I'm a strong believer in second chances.

I believe in second chances.

People say you can't change the world. But you can change people.