Quotes About Empathy

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.

I would just like to say something to all the women out there. You're not the only one that's probably going through something, so I feel as though if one person speaks up, maybe it - hopefully - will be a domino effect.

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

Like, I just feel like the way a man speaks to a woman - the way that people speak to each other - it's a respect thing.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

Working with special needs children is hard.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

Once I got to the NBA I wanted to continue to work with the Special Olympics and those with special needs.

I'll always have a special place in my heart for Martina Navratilova.

There's a brotherhood with the specialists. There's not many of them and we don't get any respect, so we have to show a little respect for each other. We have to help each other out if we have the opportunity.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.

Other species help children develop empathy.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.