Quotes About Empathy

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.