Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.

Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.

Individuating and taking someone else's perspective can be very powerful.

So whether that's taking a bunch of people from Chicago down to Standing Rock or being in Flint, Michigan, or being in Palestine or Baton Rouge after Alton Sterling's killing, I've been trying to, just as a man, be present and stand with the struggling and oppressed people around the world.

Taking care of your mental health is important, and being able to model that for queer people who are out there every day dealing with their own struggles is very significant.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

It's hard to put your heart into things when you feel you're being pulled in so many different directions and people are taking advantage of you.

Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

A great listener - that was my talent!

I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn't happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

For me, a good show is not a perfect show; it's just one where you connected. It's a show where the fans got to know you, and they realize that you're human, but they also think you're a star and that you're talented and all that good stuff.

Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people.

I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.