Empathy Quotes - Page 32

• Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Definitions

  Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books

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• I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wisdom, Love You, Like Love

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, 2005.

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• Seek to understand rather than be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Understood

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• The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

  Stephen Covey

  Holy Ground, People, Appreciate

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.367, Mango Media Inc.

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• The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.

  Stephen Covey

  Adventure, Self, Expression

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.

  Stephen Covey

  Air, People, Giving

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

  William Safire

  President, Politician, Rhetorical

  1990 LanguageMaven Strikes Again.

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• Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

  Jane Addams

  People, Imagination, Realization

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.13, Youcanprint

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• Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.

  Ben Stein

  Compassion, People, God Love

  "Trouble ahead for science". archive.boston.com. May 8, 2008.

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• Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.

  Warren Farrell

  Couple, Divorce, And Love

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• Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Manipulation, Emotion

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• The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

  Heath Ledger

  Zero, Thinking, Night

  "In Stetson or Wig, He’s Hard to Pin Down". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.

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• As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

  David Cobley

  Real, Boys, Imagination

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• Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.

  Tracy Letts

  Writing, Character, Shoes

  "Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Feelings, Kind

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.16, Granta Books

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• Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

  Michelle Huneven

  Biblical, Imagination, Historical

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• Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Compassion, Feelings

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• I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Healing, Thinking, Compassion

  "Vanessa Hudgens Talks GIMME SHELTER, Stepping Outside of Her Comfort Zone, Preparing for the Role, THE KITCHEN SINK, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 21, 2014.

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• We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.

  Kim Stolz

  Missing, Add, Multitasking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

  Jessica Livingston

  Errors, Sight, People

  Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.18, Apress

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• The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Honesty, Communication, Order

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• Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Moving, Heart

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• Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

  Keith Ablow

  Hurt, Children, Triumph

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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