Quotes About Empathy

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.

When you have friends that are Muslim, Jewish, gay, from any marginalized group, you realize that they are so much more than this esoteric talking point.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

The only time I ever get choked is when I'm at Make-A-Wish headquarters, because you're talking and working with people who share the same ideals.

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.

Kurt Vonnegut talks about how we know there is another family out there and when we find it we get this almost instinctive sense of belonging. And that is how I felt in Enniskillen in 1977 when I realized there were these people of all ages, whatever their religion, from different backgrounds, who were bound together by a love of plays and acting.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as a revelation and we all really acknowledge it.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.