Quotes About Empathy

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.

One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.

Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

I've maybe gotten broken up with one time, and I like to think that's because I'm a very good girlfriend.

There was one time I flagged every 'Brokeback Mountain' review on Netflix that was negative. I was, like, 'not helpful,' and I spent, like, an hour doing it, and I wrote a really serious review about it. It's hard for me not to get really sensitive. I don't brush things off like that very easily.

I can't tell you how many thousands of small moments that I've had with employees in our company that have been nothing more than a one-on-one. I'll see the baggage-services person, he or she is by himself. I'll pull them off to the side and have a 15-minute conversation about their history, their life, that kind of thing.

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.

I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.

Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.