Quotes About Empathy

We need to break the stigma around depression.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

On a bad day, I'll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world's population's eyes.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,' and singing baby songs and pulling faces literally stimulates the synapses in the brain.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

I've got to like myself, I think, through my relationship with Sting, who pours love over me.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.

When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.

I got it tough, but I can't even imagine what the Stolen Generation went through.

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

I work more with my stomach than my brain.

I don't throw the word hate around much, but I have to say that I truly hate seeing people physically fight each other. It actually makes me sick to my stomach.

Hunger changes you. As your body begins to claw at you, your stomach churning in anger, every person who shares a photo of the fancy meal they're about to eat is no longer your friend.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.