Quotes About Empathy

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.

After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

It's tough to step in the shoes of Paul George.

Paul had the biggest heart in the world and he was such a good example.

I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward.

Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.

I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

In any marriage, it seems, love is when you keep paying attention.

You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.