Quotes About Empathy

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for.

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

I don't despise people.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

I don't despise anyone. It's definitely all about the love.

I haven't the energy to despise anyone.

I don't really despise anyone.

Despite everything that's going on, people need love.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

I'm not going to be one of those interviewers that forensically destroys someone.

The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships.

I want to help people to get to know my story and really tell them in detail what I've been through.

I love the idea of seeing a character - I mean, there's nothing like seeing a character and having the huge detail and roundness that a character in a book can give you. It's so much more full than a character in a script can give you, isn't it?

For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful.

When I was 12, I was told I couldn't play with the boys anymore, and I was devastated.