Quotes by Empathy Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens. Neil Strauss empathy couple judging I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them. Neko Case empathy animal people I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them. Neko Case empathy animal thinking For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. Niccolo Machiavelli empathy truth reality If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role. Nicholas D. Kristof empathy supportive people Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role. Nicholas D. Kristof empathy supportive play Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. Neil Gaiman empathy self people The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less. Nhat Hanh empathy suffering listening 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. Nhat Hanh empathy listening heart Mirror neurons make human empathy possible. Nick Morgan neurons empathy mirrors I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. Nikki Giovanni empathy writing book Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. Nora Roberts empathy too-much feelings [Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren't right to do that - I don't think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons - to create empathy. Oliver Stone empathy crafts thinking I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy. Oliver Stone empathy nuts people Leadership is about empathy. Oprah Winfrey empathy I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. Padma Lakshmi empathy lines home We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world. Pankaj Mishra empathy compassion ideas You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive. Pascal Bruckner empathy compassion feelings It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain. Pat Barker empathy pain goes-on 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. Patrick Heusinger empathy people thinking «2021222324252627282930»
