Quotes About Empathy

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Love is the highest frequency we can operate on.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

I had to realize that other people had an opinion that counted, and I had to realize that other people had feelings, and you've got to watch their feelings and listen to what they have to say.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.

I may speak my mind and come across as opinionated sometimes, but I would never want to harm anyone intentionally.

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

I had to realize that everyone has opinions, and they all have the right to feel a certain way, and you have to respect that.