Best 1068 quotes in «empathy quotes» category

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Compassion is a verb.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs...that's the "big kahuna" in managing people.

During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.