Quotes About Empathy

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

I want people to say, 'She is really sweet and kind.' Anyone can work hard enough and be 'pretty.' Not many people are nice nowadays.

I'd promised myself that I'd really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have all the right equipment to make a human being together.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

I get so much energy to work harder when I meet and greet younger kids because they like me with such innocent hearts.

My work is about helping humanity.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.