Quotes About Empathy

I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

Both my parents are very emotional. My mom is not expressive, my father is more, and he speaks out more.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.