Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

Theodor Adorno

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

In another two months, all this empathy for Sharon will be over.

Barack Obama

It's puzzling, given his immediate response during 9/11, that he did not feel a greater sense of empathy toward the folks that were experiencing this enormous disaster, ... This Week.

David Eagleman

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Dada Vaswani

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

Eric Zorn

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

Enrico Caruso

During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

Eoin Colfer

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

Ira Glass

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Ira Glass

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Fra Angelico

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Katherine Ellison

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

John Shirley

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Libba Bray

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

Matthieu Ricard

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Leslie Jamison

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

Leslie Jamison

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Maureen O'Hara

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

Jonathan Haidt

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Peter Singer

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

Judy Garland

Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Peter Greenaway

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.

Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber

In the beginning was the relationship.

Martin Buber

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Martin Buber

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

Eric Fischl

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Joshua Leonard

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

Tariq Ramadan

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

Tim Finn

True contentment comes with empathy.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.