Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head. — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and… — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“When empathy is present in a companies culture, employees feel safe and they bring the fullness of who they are into the… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
“Spirituality without hate is a lie. If you can't feel anger, you can't feel love. Empathy without disgust isn't truly empathy. When… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“aggression, violence, compassion, empathy, sympathy, competition, cooperation, altruism, envy, schadenfreude, spite, forgiveness, reconciliation, revenge, reciprocity, and (why not?) love.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Affect detection. First, a person must detect a change in the emotional disposition of someone else. In the behavioral sciences, “affect” means… — John Medina Copy Share Image
If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair.… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
“Impulsive, sensation-seeking, and incapable of experiencing empathy or guilt, a narcissistic psychopath treats other people as objects of need fulfillment and wish… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never… — Arno Gruen Copy Share Image
“Empathy. Most people think empathy is like understanding someone else or relating to them. But it's more than that. Real empathy is… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“It’s not your fault, you know,” Tobias’s voice broke softly into her thoughts. She looked up at the gentle face that he… — Hanna Peach Copy Share Image
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You know that it’s hard work to consistently apply self-awareness, empathy, and self-control,” — Jen Shirkani Copy Share Image
“Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives Copy Share Image
“The mission of design thinking is to translate observations into insights and insights into products and services that will improve lives. Empathy” — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
A teacher has to understand the ability and capability of his or her student, their sentiments and varying levels of sensitivity to… — Shobana Copy Share Image
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
“Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
