Quotes About Empathy

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

People want to work with a person, not for a company.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

Whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of us all.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.

You know it doesn't work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

Try and benefit others, animals, the whole of the earth, as much as you can. And in that space, challenge yourself to find what it is you can bring about through your life's work.

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.