Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
“If anything there appears to be an indignant kind of mateship here, a loyalty that precludes empathy.” — Anna Krien Copy Share Image
Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel… — James Fox Copy Share Image
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness… Sensitivity denies equal access… — Scott M. Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many -… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
“Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Understand what people are really going through, then give the best solution you can. Maybe you could be the Angel that saved… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of empathy and openness from my parents. I know so many people who don't have that experience. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“a new formula for acquiring ethical knowledge appeared: Knowledge = Experiences × Sensitivity.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy. — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
