Quotes About Empathy

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.

If someone says something vulgar to you and you retweet it, now you're giving them a voice, and you never want to give hate a voice.

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

I think you start in middle life to recognize your vulnerabilities, if you're lucky. You admit them and people find that interesting.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

I hope that the vulnerability I share in my songs and my story is a vessel to people, showing them they are not alone, and that anything is possible.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

The great comics can fall on their faces, but then they can say, 'Oh, baby, you're the greatest.' They show their heart and their vulnerability.

My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

One thing to remember is that human beings connect through vulnerability. That's our core way of connecting.

Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.