Quotes About Empathy

A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.

It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

There were times when we didn't have enough food on the table. When it came to the end of the month, I could see my parents were sad because they were unable to give us the best. They had lots of debts. Sometimes they had arguments about it.

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. Being a parent, for me, means creating what I didn't have. I want my children to feel love and be able to express it.

'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

It's really difficult for me to watch when I'm unable to play myself.

There are many people who are unable to eat even a single meal in a day and it is our responsibility to help in whatever way we can.

I would not want to be unable to talk. Imagine not being able to talk when you're a talkative person.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

To publicly shame and attack someone who's been found to be harassed, to intimidate someone who's found to already have been harassed is unacceptable.

We have to take better care of each other and respect each other. Equality must be a priority. Anything less is unacceptable.

Discrimination - in any form - is unacceptable and runs contrary to New Hampshire's Live Free or Die Spirit.