Quotes About Empathy

I think with 'Strictly,' people don't want you to do badly. They're willing you to do well.

A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about each other's cultures, that we don't respect each other's origins and there is so much negativity and strife around because we don't know where the other person is coming from.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or known that connects the reader to this person you're going to ride through the story with.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

The power to stay your hand is far greater than the power to strike with your hand and hinsa has no place in the society.

I try and strike a balance between being sensible and sensitive.

I love those kinds of parts that don't seem to be huge but they really strike a chord with the audience.

While bringing up my kids I had to strike a balance between being strict and being able to maintain my cool.

I'm listening to scripts and would like to play characters that'd strike a chord with the masses.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

One of the hallmarks of the American spirit is the desire to help each other when disaster strikes.

The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

My hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level. We make more sense that way. We sound more like our real selves that way.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.