Quotes About Empathy

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.

I won't attempt something that could be potentially offensive; 80 per cent of comedy can happen without hurting anyone's sentiments. Only a few people can't take it in the right spirit.

Since I had children, I cry all the time - I just had a little cry in 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.'

My mum, Doris, was a source of unalloyed love. She lived for her family and would literally give you her last pound. I think she's made me a kinder person, because I think: Do I want to help this person? If my mum was around, she would have.

I am not looking for a pound of flesh from Sally Jewell.

My great-grandfather started in the coal mines, and my great grandmother made 10 pounds of bread every Saturday morning that we delivered to the neighbors. It was always about giving back. These kinds of things drive me to make a difference.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

I know what poverty is.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so we couldn't concentrate.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.