Quotes by Empathy The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. Alison Gopnik empathy giving children If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me. Alison Hawthorne Deming empathy religious feelings I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many - I do have a complete ability to emphasize with people. And that all goes down to being "other." When you're young you think otherness is a state only you possess. When you get older you realize, "Actually, there's so many of us." In that we find community. Alison Moyet empathy people thinking Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. Amanda Palmer empathy healthy art Empathy is the key to great stories. Ami Vitale empathy keys stories Empathy is the wellspring of creativity. Ami Vitale wellspring empathy creativity Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. Anderson Cooper empathy loss life True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. Andre Gide empathy kindness joy Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? Andre Gide empathy apathy sound I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done. Andrea Arnold empathy details thinking I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs Anita Roddick pity empathy children But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups. Ann Coulter empathy groups powerful Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world. Ann Veneman empathy focus humility The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill. Anna Quindlen empathy dollars prejudice Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. Annie Lennox empathy brutality compassion Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. Ansel Adams empathy photography attitude I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. Antoine de Saint-Exupery empathy land sympathy Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors. Antonella Gambotto-Burke empathy expression culture It takes a great man to make a great listener Arthur Helps empathy understanding men Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. Arthur Koestler empathy creativity self «1234567891011»