Quotes About Empathy

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Let's not project our fears onto others.

What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I'm interviewing so that they feel comfortable enough to open up and share their story with me.

Before being an athlete, I'm a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.

The reason I have LGBT fans is because I'm an open book; they're attracted to that.

I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.

I am someone who will listen and someone who has an open mind.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

Everyone needs an open mind and an accepting heart. With a combination of these two aspects, you will be able to communicate sensibly.

I always want to listen with an open mind.

I try to keep an open mind.

I keep an open mind and try and make my opinions after I meet someone based on their actions toward me personally.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

I want to share what I have, and I'd rather share it with people that are a little bit more open-minded.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

In general, I just try to make the people that I'm shooting feel like they are in good hands. I'm open-minded, and I invite them to be open-minded to the process. I'm direct and curious.

Some people forget that when you are collaborating, you aren't always right. So you have to be open-minded and have to remember there are two minds creating. So you have to respect the other person.

People who are open-hearted and open-minded touch me deeply.