Quotes About Empathy

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

I think that as president of Poland, I can speak about the suffering.

Both 'Saraswatichandra' and 'Mahakumbh' are extremely close to my heart. The shows are polar opposites and so are the characters but I have loved being a part of both of them.

I think as a police officer when you're dealing with a member of the public you put something on because you have to appear to be this person who knows what they're talking about, and of course you're also trying to figure out the Rubik's cube of why people behave in the way that they do.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

I had kids make fun of me because not only was I blonde but also Polish.

I don't feel I ask anything of anybody else that I wouldn't give up myself. I don't think the things I ask are particularly shocking, and I don't think I approach celebrities from the point of view of being a polished journalist.