Best 1068 quotes in «empathy quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Compassion is a verb.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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 most radical of human emotions.

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Empathy grows as we learn.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

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.