Quotes About Empathy

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that.

I find myself in a position where I have a voice that has the potential to influence - I want to use that to inspire confidence in those that have yet to find it, to inspire compassion in those who don't understand, but most importantly, to inspire love in everyone through the experiences and stories that we can all relate to or empathize with.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

I have a voice, and I'm trying to use it to be the voice for all the innocent people who don't have one.

If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.

The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.

Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

I want to bring light to my music, to women all over the world. I want to illuminate them with power and a voice, to feel special.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.

Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of release - made me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.