Quotes About Empathy

No one wants everyone to know how sick they are and everyone to see how much they are struggling. And when that seems to be the focus, of making sure everyone sees how sick you are, that's just confusing to someone that is trying to be supportive.

It starts with you in your own community. Just being kind to one another, being supportive of one another, and being loving and respectful. I can't tell you how far that will get you in life, just being able to do that.

We've seen the struggle, and we know that most American families are dealing with some sort of struggle like we are. And I think they can relate to us, you know, as parents who are hopeful and are supportive of our son, and we will continue to be supportive. And I think that makes us more empathetic about helping other Americans.

I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one another.

I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.

I'm supportive of social justice.

Just because you are friends doesn't mean you like the same kind of men, want to live in the same type of house, and both want your steak cooked the same way! I often disagree with my friends, however I make every effort to be sensitive to their feelings and be supportive.

Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.

There's something so beautiful in playing a character that supports another character's success.

If you are a part of a family, that family does not treat you badly when you are down, it supports you to revive.

When we represent all cultures with sensitivity and truth, we foster a society that supports all people.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

There's always room to mend broken hearts, I suppose.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

I suppose my job is to describe spaces that are honest to me. And the goal, I suppose, is that the listener can hear themselves in some way in that song and also, in some way, hear me. And so if the listener is able to identify with my honesty then I'm being the most helpful I can possibly be.

I suppose if I did get into a situation with a friend where we both liked the same girl, I like to think we'd sit down maturely and decide who was going to get in there, and then the other would stand aside.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.