Quotes About Empathy

It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have with my mother.' Or say, 'Your book made me think a lot about my parents, and I've decided to sign up for counseling.' That is mind-boggling.

To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

I think people need to be open minded to everyone.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

I don't buy any leather goods or anything made from animal products - no down, nothing. It's something people should be mindful of.

Really think about the way you interact with people, whether it's in person or on the Internet. You have to be very mindful.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

I'm really interested in how people's minds work - what makes them sad or happy.

I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

It's not my role or my goal to change people's minds. I would hope they would support me, but it's not for me to make them do so.

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

Every business needs to get out of their own mindset and into the aspirational mindsets of their customers and clients and create services and products that are beyond their customers' imagination but will be what they 'gotta have' in the future.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records.