Quotes About Empathy

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Work without love is slavery.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.