Quotes About Empathy

Even when someone fails, there's never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We're an affectionate show and we're not poking fun at anyone. Strictly' is feel-good television at its finest.

I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

Any queen who's ever worked in a drag bar, or even been in a drag dressing room, knows that underlying all of that is a sense of family.

After George Floyd's murder, we had a conversation on our podcast where the underlying message was about being empathetic. We wanted people just to truly listen. We're not here to point fingers or label people as racists. I'm here to tell you our experiences and how we feel.

The underlying goal of comedy is feeling not-alone.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

I learned that being husband and wife is just a label. It becomes, 'Do you really care about the person, the human underneath the label?' And I do, and I really do.

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

God created us equal. Money and talent might be seen as setting us apart. But underneath, we're all the same.

The underprivileged are the only privileged ones in the eyes of Allah.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.