Quotes About Empathy

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you.

It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch.

Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.

People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.

To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.