Quotes About Empathy

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.