Quotes About Empathy

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.

I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don't explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that's a place that we have to look inside.

If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

It's a great way to spend your time as a human: learning about other humans and then sharing that knowledge.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

I think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.