Quotes About Empathy

the most important moments in conversation happen when one person is actively, intently listening.

There's an accelerated change to the relationship that happens when you're able to really listen, to be incredibly present with the person.

Group performance depends on behavior that communicates one powerful overarching idea: We are safe and connected.

Make Sure the Leader Is Vulnerable First and Often: As we've seen, group cooperation is created by small, frequently repeated moments of vulnerability.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

you and I disagree…is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians and I don't give a damn. I don't care.

ANT Species of ANT Kill the ANT You never listen to me. "Always/Never" Thinking I get frustrated when you don't listen to me, but I know you have listened to me and will again. The boss doesn't like me. Mind Reading I don't know that. Maybe she's just having a bad day. Bosses are people, too. The whole class will laugh at me. Fortune-telling I don't know that. Maybe they'll really like my speech.

Make an effort to compare yourself to others in a positive way. Comparing yourself to others in a negative way is the most predictable way to lower your self-esteem.

people act badly, it is easy to just call them negative or derogatory names. But once you look at their scans and realize they might have a damaged or toxic scan, it gives you more understanding and empathy.

I will protect my energy around draining people. I will learn how to set healthy boundaries. I will learn how to say "no" at the right times. I will listen to my intuition about the relationships that are nurturing for me. JUDITH ORLOFF, MD, THE EMPATH'S SURVIVAL GUIDE

Noticing what you like about others more than what you don't is a recipe for happy relationships and happiness overall.

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: … The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. … They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics

Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly.

Altruistic love: giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly

it is human to fight for personal justice. And I hope you are able to fight for yourself. But even more, I hope you can turn your anger into energy to fight for justice for others. If you can, then maybe by the time you have a precious grandchild, he or she will grow up in a more compassionate world.

I hope you will not listen to people who try to talk you out of your pain or show you ways to fix it. Because if your try too hard to fix pain, it only takes longer to heal.

As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our excitement and our hope for them. And as that five or sex degrees turns into ten or twenty degrees, even ninety degrees, we have to monitor those feelings every step of the way-and ultimately realize that our child is another human being and not necessarily and extension of us.

Love changes everything.

Children don't learn from lessons or teaching. They learn from what we honestly have to say about our feelings, and they learn from our behavior.