Quotes About Empathy

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

I think everyone has such a negative perception of homeless people - including myself, before I'd researched homelessness for my role in 'Hollyoaks.'

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

If we are so holy and so perfect and never interact with people that may not go to church or may not be where we think we are, then how will they ever get light?

You never know what is going on in someone's head when they you think they are leading the perfect life.

I'm not the perfect person, but I have the perfect heart, I feel, when it comes to helping people.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.

I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.

The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are: as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions.

My hope for my daughter is that she has the courage to at least try to do it all, to be kind to herself when it all doesn't come together perfectly, and to follow her dreams.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

I have performed for people around the world but it is always a different feeling when you perform for your own people.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.