Quotes About Empathy

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains. If we've been doing it for that long, those of us who are impatient need to be a little more patient and keep on addressing those things, not ignoring it. White people need to do the same thing. Don't turn a blind eye to it.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

To put up with me, you have to be patient.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

Take heart, and be patient; change takes time but it is possible, and it's way more likely if we can reach out and disagree without demonizing.

I was a hard person to deal with as a patient.

I have a great dad myself and I hope to be as patient and understanding as he was with me when I was growing up.

It took me a long time to be able to say I was a cancer patient. Then, for a long time, I was only that: A cancer patient.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

I want to help AIDS patients.

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.