Quotes About Empathy

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

Heart power is better than horsepower.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.