Quotes About Empathy

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

I grew up in a number of homes and I grew up without a lot of structure. I understand now that damage is part of the journey. Heartbreak. Loss. Gain.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.