Quotes About Empathy

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it's about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.