Quotes About Empathy

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.

That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

[My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

Find out what people want and help them get it.