Quotes About Empathy

This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

A lot of times, I think that what I do for a living has no integrity. 'Once Upon A Time' has changed that to a certain extent because the reaction we get from children out in the world is so fulfilling, I cannot even articulate it. There's nothing like being greeted as Snow White by a hyperventilating child versus Ginnifer Goodwin.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.

I think sometimes you learn more about someone when they're upset about a situation and how they might communicate versus when things are going their way.

It's very important to choose kindness and stop bullying.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

We think the friendship between us is a very important aspect for our group, and we try to keep that in a very naturally, like without love, we don't have to try too hard, but it's always needs to be there. So, we remind each other all the time that, when you're going through a hard time, we have the hard time with you.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that's what real life should be about as well.

I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand to anyone in need, and I hope to raise my daughter to be a very kind and charitable person.

I learned tolerance at a very early age.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.