Quotes About Empathy

It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I don't know if it's unique, but I know many Korean American people of my generation who want to know about their grandparents' lives in Korea, but their family members won't tell them because it's too painful. But my grandmother is just a natural storyteller, and she very openly spoke about really difficult times in her life.

My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them so brilliantly and still knows where to put the funny bit.

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking, about being a storyteller, is being able to learn about other people, putting myself in somebody else's shoes, whether that be someone from the Dominican Republic or someone from Cuba or inner-city Brooklyn.

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

We are the storytelling animal.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.