Quotes About Empathy

Many guys seem to think that his thoughts and feelings are always right and always the best option. I think I am the same kind of guy.

There are times when you might have a bad training session or a bad day, and although I would often go to a team-mate to have a chat if that were the case, it's also great to have the option of expressing your thoughts in a journal if you don't want to bother anyone.

I couldn't connect with people so I developed other senses. I had no other option.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.

As a kid, I felt like I had no voice, felt like I had no options, and that's what drove me to this really dark place.

Watching something like 'Orange is the New Black' - the development of the characters is amazing. Or 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mad Men' - those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that's a pretty magic thing.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

I feel like in order for something to connect to an audience there needs to be a form of authenticity.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

No matter what you do, you're going to run into haters online. We're not talking about ordinary, disgruntled customers who should be addressed with empathy and understanding. Haters are a breed apart.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.

To force something that was not organic to who I am was tough on me, and so I can relate to all those girls and guys out there going through the same thing.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.