Quotes About Empathy

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!" "Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.