Quotes About Empathy

Anyone who's ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it is for those around them, as much as it is for the addict.

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.

I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

I like developing relationships.

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or mind reading, you've just got more time to devote to understanding the world by systemizing.

When we stop thinking about ourselves, when we stop being so devoted to 'me,' we can start behaving in a way that actually benefits others!

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 22, I learned just how much cancer affects families when it affects individuals.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Let's not forget, we are all one diagnosis away from having a pre-existing condition.

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.