Quotes About Empathy

The goal of attunement is not simply continual meshing, with an utter entrainment of every thought and feeling; it also includes giving each other space to be alone as needed. This cycle of connectedness strikes a balance between the individual's needs and the couple's. As one family therapist put it, "The more a couple can be apart, the more they can be together.

And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.

One friend can make the difference - even when all others turn their backs (and even when that friendship is not all that solid).

We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.

practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships.

The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness.

The ability to control impulse is the base of will and character. By the same token, the root of altruism lies in empathy, the ability to read emotions in others; lacking a sense of another's need or despair, there is no caring. And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.

Not that leaders need to be overly "nice"; the emotional art of leadership includes pressing the reality of work demands without unduly upsetting people.

the workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

Empathy builds on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings.

shapes those feelings.

emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

Ordinarily, small children learn much about emotions by looking at the other person's eyes, while those with autism avoid the eyes and so fail to get those lessons.

The executive circuits that allow us to think about our own thoughts and to monitor the feelings that flow from them let us apply the same reasoning to other people´s minds when we choose to direct our attention that way

Empathy leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences. These capacities are ever more called on in our increasingly pluralistic society, allowing people to live together in mutual respect and creating the possibility of productive public discourse. These are basic arts of democracy.

Some time is needed to grasp the psychological and moral dimensions of a situation. The more distracted we are, the less we can cultivate the subtler forms of empathy and compassion.

los psicópatas no se preocupen por las posibles consecuencias de sus actos. Y su incapacidad de experimentar el miedo es la que da cuenta de su ausencia de toda empatía –o compasión– hacia el dolor y el miedo de sus víctimas.

the root of altruism lies in empathy, the ability to read emotions in others; lacking a sense of another's need or despair, there is no caring.

De todas las dimensiones de la inteligencia emocional, la empatía es la que se reconoce con mayor facilidad.

Quisiera imaginar que, algún día, la educación incluirá en su programa de estudios la enseñanza de habilidades tan esencialmente humanas como el autoconocimiento, el autocontrol, la empatía y el arte de escuchar, resolver conflictos y colaborar con los demás.

We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.

What can we change that will help our children fare better in life?

Attunement to others demands a modicum of calm in oneself.

An artful critique focuses on what a person has done and can do rather than reading a mark of character into a job poorly done. As Larson observes, "A character attack—calling someone stupid or incompetent—misses the point. You immediately put him on the defensive, so that he's no longer receptive to what you have to tell him about how to do things better.