Quotes about empathy
empathy exception appropriate
Without exception, empathy is always appropriate. Stephen Covey
empathy creative positive-energy
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
empathy understood
Seek to understand rather than be understood.
empathy political complaining
Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy. Stefan Molyneux
empathy devil alive
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. Ralph Fiennes
empathy gaps way
I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at. Teju Cole
empathy waiting genius
We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along... Randall Jarrell
empathy mind ears
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind. Zhuangzi
empathy president politician
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. William Safire
empathy fiction world
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. Ursula K. Le Guin
empathy leaves-of-grass feels
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. Walt Whitman
empathy machines
Movies are like a machine that generates empathy, Roger Ebert
empathy problem
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
empathy understanding mind
The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.
empathy bless
Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy. Yoko Ono
empathy stronger needs
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. Zadie Smith