Quotes About Empathy

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

The reason why things work is because of love.

I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, "Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!" We're lonely, women.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

If more students use self-compassion to reframe their failures, they may discover more nourishing sources of motivation and healthier strategies to pursue their goals.

In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The old strategy of suffering in silence could not have been more misguided.

It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.

Alleviating suffering of the most marginalized communities must begin with assessing the needs of entire communities and allowing the most marginalized to lead the strategy. My belief is those closest to the pain are closest to the solution.

I love strategy games, but a lot are very techy, and they don't really give you any human side of what strategy really is.

Please be nice, be kind to stray animals, dogs, and adopt them.

It is great to see people feeding stray dogs, taking care of them.

I sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak, too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those individuals who have got themselves into trouble.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

When you are watching a show on a streaming channel, the effect is immediate. It affects your psyche and the relationship that you share with a character on screen is much deeper and intense.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.