“I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.” — Starley Ard Copy Share Image
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I think the way to approach any character is just with a deep sense of empathy for whoever it… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
“In the process of becoming conscious beings, we eventually come back around again and again to the ideas of compassion, caring, and… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the… — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
“Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Stoic moral training depends upon the defensibility of these schematic propositions: (a) Rational deliberative power (rational agency) is a defining feature of… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
You would never survive a day in my skin, so don't try to tell me you know how I feel. — Colin Olsen Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Acting is probably the only profession where you are relying only on empathy. — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
