Quotes About Empathy

You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

In America people get depressed for no reason. They say, 'I'm sad my boyfriend didn't call me.' I tell them, 'How would you like to spend 12 hours on a line to get bread or a chicken?' That is depressing.

There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there are quite a few people who like me because they know me. I'm not a bad guy by any means. I can't do anything about people hating me for no reason.

Respect the person you're with. My philosophy is, if I'm not happier when I'm with you, then there's no reason for me to be with you. I'm happy on my own.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don't find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.

It doesn't matter how scary someone may seem - they have two legs, two arms and a heartbeat just like me. There's no reason why I wouldn't want to fight anybody.

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

I turned from a fan favourite to a player they hated in no time.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.

Nobody is born evil.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

I love watching film. I love watching stories. I watch the people in them... Even, sometimes, films that nobody else can watch - 'How could you look at that? It's lousy' - I can look at it and be totally into it.

There were times when I just couldn't be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much for me.

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.