Quotes About Empathy

Not everyone's going to love you or what you do. Someone's always going to complain about something.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

Everyone knows that a compliment goes a very long way, and you never know what someone's going through in their life - giving them a compliment might mean the world to them.

I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people's needs and they don't think the world revolves around them.

A compliment goes a long way.

It's hard for some parents to give their children compliments.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

If you visibly compromise someone or hurt someone, or hurt their vision, you're not supposed to still just stand there and wait for them to come to you.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

Concentrating on yourself all day is not healthy.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Protesters have no concern with problems of the people.

Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.