Empathy Quotes - Page 12

• If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

  Bill Gates

  Optimism, Secret, Matter

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• When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

  Henry Rollins

  Distance, Muzzle, Way

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• Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

  Leslie Jamison

  Our Actions, Might, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

  Richard Flanagan

  Thinking, Danger, Terrible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

  Paul Bloom

  War, People, Suffering

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

  Eric Fischl

  Alive, Connecting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we call terrorists have placed the same label on us, and that the use of force will create a counter force, a never-ending saga of killing and hate. Ending war involves cultivating empathy in our policies and the love of God in our hearts. As the Native Americans reminded us: No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, War, Native American

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• There are two side to every issue.

  Ayn Rand

  Two Sides, Issues, Two

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.73, Penguin

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• A respectful understanding of another's experience.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Understanding, Respectful

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• Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

  David Brooks

  Wisdom, People, Suffering

  FaceBook post by David Brooks from Sep 30, 2011

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• Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

  Frans de Waal

  Mother, Successful, Needs

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• Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are likely to be the most tactful advisors, the most diplomatic officials, the most effective negotiators, the most electable politicians, the most productive salespersons, the most successful teachers, and the most insightful therapists.

  William Ickes

  Teacher, Reading, Successful

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• The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Shoes, People

  "As a society, are we losing our empathy?" by Catherine Conroy, www.irishtimes.com. January 30, 2017.

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• Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I had a very black-and-white view of Marie Antoinette before, but in reading that book, I developed a lot of empathy for her. She was just caught up in history. There was no place for a woman to do anything at that time anyway.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think being able to sit in the shoes of a woman and being able to manage products that are mostly sold to women, alongside a lot of female employees, is really helpful because you hold that empathy to the situation. You can understand where the customer is coming from.

  Maureen Chiquet

  Thinking, Female, Helpful

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.

  Marty Nemko

  People, Coping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Real spiritual journey in life is the discovery of self. I think once you take all the religious bullshit away from Jesus Christ, it's saying it's about this journey of discovering who you are, and what's really important in life is simply love. That the journey of civilization, the journey of understanding, is forgiveness, is empathy. And that's what humanity is striving for.

  Matthew Modine

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that you never get to go and be a person who you never in your life would get to be and feel something and have empathy for people and see things from another point of view.

  Cherien Dabis

  People, Point Of View, Movie Theater

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Understanding, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

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• If you and I are not having a dialogue, when you're having an argument, the reason the argument happen is because we are not listening to each other. Then, the argument comes in, but if we truly listen instead of hearing, argument will not happen. Then, we'll empathize, and then once the empathy kicks in, you will be much more inclining with my viewpoint and I'll be inclining with your viewpoint, and that's what is missing in organizations.

  Subir Chowdhury

  Missing, Listening, Argument

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fun, Book, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that I write about, that maybe that might make them feel empathy for those people. I know it sounds idealistic in a way, but I do hope that my work maybe changes some minds, and that my work makes readers see people as human that maybe before they read my work they might not have seen as humans, and those people include me and my family and my kids, people in my community.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

  RZA

  Moving, Important, Emotion

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair. You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands unfolding like petals to pull you on board. And while you will probably have to hang on to the door frame with your fingertips, you are still grateful for the empathy of your fellow passengers, already packed tighter than cattle, their shirts drenched with sweat in the badly ventilated compartment. They know that your boss might yell at you or cut your pay if you miss this train.

  Suketu Mehta

  Running, Grateful, Cutting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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