Quotes About Empathy

Sometimes you have to choose between honesty and kindness, and I've always been a sucker for the kind side.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

So you've given away the old good and evil? asked Rose, amazed at all this rare talk from Quick. No. No. I'll stay a cop. But it's not us and them anymore. It's us and us and us. It's always us. That's what they never tell you. Geez, Rose, I just want to do right. But there's no monsters, only people like us. Funny, but it hurts.

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racists you come in contact with, doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

We don't need guns. We just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating. And stop they will. And for some of you, real damned soon, truth be told.

To look at the face [of Princess Angeline] and not see humanity is to lack humanity.

Their humanity has been forgotten," Grinnell said of the predominant way most outsiders looked at Indians—as either savages or victims.

If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

To "fix" someone's problem, you very often just need to empathically listen to them. Even

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. The heroes in this book are no different. Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.

Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.

As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget

18. Notice how I take "you" out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it's implicit. "Normally, you make priorities clear" sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other, you can skip this formality, but never use "you always do X," which is just a fight starter.

People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first. This made me think of a line from fictional character Raylan Givens in the TV series Justified: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

Feel good about really hearing those who disagree with you.

Da igual cuánta gente no te entienda. Lo importante es cuánta gente sí lo hace.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."—George S. Patton

debes entrenarte para afrontar las críticas (o incluso disfrutar con ellas).

When you complain, nobody wants to help you,' and it's the simplest thing and so plainly spoken. Only he could really say that brutal, honest truth, but it's true, right? If you spend your time focusing on the things that are wrong, and that's what you express and project to people you know, you don't become a source of growth for people, you become a source of destruction for people. That draws more destructiveness.

Be a member of your target market and don't speculate what others need or will be willing to buy.

Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don't get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.

Telling myself the victim story allows me to vent briefly. Once I'm over it, then I realize that if this meeting was so important to me, I should have made it clear to my girlfriend that I couldn't be late, and let her know that if she was running late, I'd have to leave without her.

Practice Going First GABBY: "I always say that I'll go first. . . . That means if I'm checking out at the store, I'll say hello first. If I'm coming across somebody and make eye contact, I'll smile first. [I wish] people would experiment with that in their life a little bit: Be first, because—not all times, but most times—it comes in your favor. The response is pretty amazing.