Quotes About Empathy

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.

Codex Orféo is something you won't see coming at you, but it does. It's all about kindness to other species, and to one another. If we can work that out, the world will take care of herself.

I'm always excited to work with actors.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.