Quotes About Empathy

If I don't have any other strength, I'm pretty good at building relationships.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Usually, my husband is a pretty good rock, a pretty good sounding board... He definitely brings a center of gravity into my life.

I'm a pretty good listener.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

You can't hate the person next to you when you're laughing and dancing together.

I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There's a danger that we are becoming stuck in a bubble and losing the ability to communicate.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

I've always said my audience is just me. It's somebody out there who's exactly like me and just isn't writing Daring Fireball.

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

My concept of a perfect date, really, is just as long as conversation is fun, and you can be yourselves and feel comfortable around each other.

I want to get to know a woman before I take them out on a date or anything like that.

Everything I learned about women, I learned from the ages of 13-16. Every girl would talk to me about their problems, and none of them wanted to date me. So, I learned all of these things. So, when I finally got to the place where I could hit on girls, I just referenced back to all the things that I learned in high school.

Every girl I've ever dated I have respect for, and I always try to leave them in good terms.

I've dated men. I've dated women. I don't know why anyone would care.

I would never say that I'm good at being on dates. I think I like to try to find a connection with somebody, like, that's my main thing. I think that maybe if you find a connection with a girl on a date, that's like the No. 1 thing, and then it's like, 'Cool, that was a great date.'

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.