The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are… — Paul K. Chappell Copy Share Image
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human… — Joshua Leonard Copy Share Image
I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
“And, practicing “radical empathy” means more than trying to reach across divides of race, class, and politics, and building bridges between communities.… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple:… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
“Empathy must be cultivated. The practice of empathy means taking a moment to imagine how you might behave if you were in… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth… — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
“[ The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government ?'] That where the least injury done… — Solon Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“One of the easiest ways to discover if someone is compatible with you is to gauge their emotional intelligence. Are they a… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
“But like most extremely sensitive people, Gascoigne could not bear sensitivity in others: he required honesty and directness when he was asked… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming… — Carol Anderson Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience,… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
“Animals have an amazing capacity for love and they have limited vocabularies. They don’t know the meaning of words like betrayal, control… — Octavia Wildwood Copy Share Image
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of… — Charles Ricketts Copy Share Image
“The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image