Quotes About Empathy

We have to listen and learn from each other to lift each other up, so we can all live the life we deserve.

I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'

There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

Being a voice for my community is something that I don't take lightly.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

Sometimes you do what you like, and other times you do... what the other person likes. That is part of being in a healthy relationship.

If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.

You can love somebody without liking them.

The girls are such a part of my life. When times are tough, we sort of pull together as like a family does - not always liking each other, but certainly love each other at the end of the day.

You cannot force a child to use their limbs if they're in pain.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

I will never want to be linked with a man who can't stand for his woman.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

I'm a people watcher, and I love to listen.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

There was this guy I used to work with, and he listened to Patsy Cline all the time, so I liked that after a while.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.