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Empathy Quotes
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- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.
- Nov 07, 2020
True contentment comes with empathy.
- Healing Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.
- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the suffering of other human beings.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your manners, your demeanor, your social skills. 'Substance' describes the inner core of your character - your intellect, your empathy, your creativity.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He's wise, he's patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art, when done well, creates empathy.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.
- Misery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
- Distinguishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
- View
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mobile revolution has dramatically changed our world view, empowered women, and increased our empathy. Corrupt governments have been toppled and wars avoided because our species has become so digitally connected.
- Nov 07, 2020
When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal with 'Beyond' is really to create a strong sense of empathy between the player and Jodie Holmes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kind Foundation was created to scale our social impact and be able to deepen our focus on fostering empathy and developing kinder communities.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020