Quotes About Empathy

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Now I have a standard for how I make sure people do not speak to me in a way that I feel uncomfortable with. When I was younger, I didn't have that. I was like, 'Try not to make waves.' I wanted everybody to like me, and so I stifled a lot of the discomfort that I had.

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am.

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.

The liberalism I was taught was you're supposed to accept everyone. Why shouldn't the people in Fort Wayne, Ind., get their side on NBC News?

I learned a lot from observing Wayne at the Rogers Cup. He was offered a cart across the grounds, but he wouldn't take it; he walked and stopped and signed autographs for people, and I thought that was amazing.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

You know how kids have a meltdown? They're overtired or overstimulated? Every once in a while, Wayne, as Mickey, would say, 'Aw, what's the matter, little fella?' And the kid would stop crying, his eyes would get big, and he'd look around, and the parents would say, 'What just happened?'

I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.