Empathetic Quotes

• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

  Susan Sarandon

  Kindness, Power, Imagination

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• I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Michael Kors: American Idol" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."

  Eve Ensler

  Warrior, People, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

  John Warnock

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• Theres a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

  Will Arnett

  Lying, People, Awful

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• I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

  Kristen Bell

  Tears, Bugs, Faults

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• Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

  Dean Koontz

  Character, Long, Empathy

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• Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

  Ann Patchett

  Skills, Two, Giving

  "Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Raj’ Ad: Where Do We Draw the Line?" by Eleni Gage, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• What is your personal definition of "good"?
  A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

  Bill Drayton

  Love, Exercise, World

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• A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they're really inspiring because they seem wise; they've gone through things.

  BANKS

  Wise, People, Role Models

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

  Glenn Beck

  Justice, Want, Blind

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

  Biz Stone

  Culture, Coworker

  "Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Interview at Wisdom 2.0" by Soren Gordhamer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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• If I want people to be empathetic to my struggle - they don't see hate crimes at the mosque, they don't see people screaming at their cousins, brothers, or sisters who wear a hijab to "go back to your country" - I have to do the same.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Country, Cousin, Brother

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.

  Tara Brach

  Teacher, Healing, Creating

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• There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Acting, Way, Evidence

  Source: collider.com

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• There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

  Scott Stossel

  Giving Up, Differences, Personality

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• When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

  Jim Broadbent

  Research, Sympathetic, Turns

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• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Struggle, Loss

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

  Simon Winchester

  Powerful, Distance, Stupid

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• You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Struggle, Empathy, Decision

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kindness, People, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.

  Paul Bloom

  Jobs, Children, Pain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

  Bill Burr

  People, Sadistic, Loving Person

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• So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.

  Stella Maeve

  Hero, Black And White, Today

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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