Quotes About Empathy

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.