Quotes About Empathy

'To All The Boys' is one film amongst a couple other romantic comedies through the decades that promotes... I don't know what they're calling it. A modern man? A man that's more emotionally accessible and available and willing to communicate and actually care and nurture.

Everyone should nurture the ability to laugh at themselves.

Remember that relationships are important and have to be nurtured and cherished. Also keep in mind that a relationship is a two way street, so be ready to give a relationship just as you would expect the other person to be giving to you.

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.

It's been in my nature to always be nurturing.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.