Quotes About Empathy

I don't show it but I'm actually quite a softie deep down.

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.

What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

Listen with an open ear is the first, most important thing to do. From there, if people feel like learning more, that's when you can kind of go deeper.

I do think entrepreneurs need to be smart, but there's another scale I never evaluated myself on that is now the source of my deepest strength: Not how much brains I have, but how much love I have.

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

I feel things deeply.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be the default - many people of color have to step into the shoes of white people. Women have to step into the shoes of men.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.

I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump.

Listen, I'm always going to defend my character, even when she's doing something that I don't approve of, because that's what you have to do to love them and play them.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.

I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

That's the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.