Empathy Quotes - Page 17

• After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

  Elif Safak

  Grief, People, Silence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Mean, Boys

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

  Jean Nouvel

  Memories, Vision, Tasks

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• The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Want, Audience, Stills

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

  Johnny Cash

  Differences, Making A Difference, Back When

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

  George W. Bush

  Realizing, Ifs

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us because of her faith, well, if you can't have empathy how will you ever have solidarity?

  Cleve Jones

  Color, Solidarity, Understand Me

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Problem, Manifestation, Things To Do

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Writing, Busy, Fit

  "The Mystery Woman in the Field: Kristin Hannah Asks Christina Baker Kline About 'A Piece of the World'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 20, 2017.

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• I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

  Johnny Cash

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

  Source: news.wbfo.org

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• One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.

  Mark Coleman

  Opposites, Practice, Shoes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.

  Gianna Simone

  Adversity, Hopeless, Difficult

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of empathy and solidarity rather than a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they're interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they're actually in the same boat.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Thinking, Emotional, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Agree

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Laughing, Conscious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Empathy - that is, caring about people and acting responsibly on that care, not just for yourself, but for others - this is something that Barack Obama understands very well. He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago for ten years. As an expert on the Constitution and on our family values, he understands very well that the country is fundamentally about caring for one another. The day after his speech, he was interviewed on CNN, and Anderson Cooper asked him what patriotism was. He said patriotism begins with caring for one another.

  George Lakoff

  Country, Caring, People

  Source: truth-out.org

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• I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Creating, Giving

  "Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Agony, Divinity, Portions

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• Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

  Matthew Scully

  Kindness, Character, Animal

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.14, Souvenir Press

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• I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Cry, Awake

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Events, Stories, Might

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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