Quotes About Empathy

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

It's never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.

Hell is other people.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

How can you make the people change? How can you reach them in their heart? I do not have the answers for this.

I'm very much a people person.

I'm a people person. I'm a hugger.

I am very much a people person.

I like to think of myself as a people person.

That's how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.