Quotes About Empathy

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

Our love of people has always been our motivation and our competitive advantage.

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.

I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.

For a lot of artists in the entertainment industry, we can't become too jaded with what's going on with our personal lives and still not be connected with our people.

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

I want to show my children the importance of donating our time and energy to help those in need.

We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.

You can be as exclusive as you want to in your house, but once you walk outside your house, you have to realize that it's not your world anymore: it's all of our world.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

My dad and I would go to Blockbuster and look for Asian films and we could never find any. If we saw a Jackie Chan movie we would watch that because it was so comforting to see a face similar to ours.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

Ours is not a culture that cares much for the work of care.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.