Quotes About Empathy

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

I hold the very simpleminded view that everything is related to everything else-and that every one is related to everyone else, and that every species is related to every other. The only way out of this tissue of interrelations, it seems to me, is to stop paying attention, and to substitute something else-hallucination, greed, pride, or hatred, for example-for sensuous connection to the facts. I think it is not the world's task to entertain us, but ours to take an interest in the world.

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.

the feeling in my heart. It is the feeling of something resonating within me.

It wasn't your fault. You didn't do anything wrong, you were just a little kid.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.

Man's inhumanity to man.Makes countless thousands mourn!

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

Then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman, though they may gang a kennin wrang, to step aside is human

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

If we really want to spend our days programming, we are going to have to learn to talk to—people.1

Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.

Building trust requires talking and thinking about trust.