People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Criticism, can be done with a kind heart and an earnest word to stimulate learning. However, sometimes with no accountability there is… — Eri Nelson Copy Share Image
“Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
I love acting, I love what we do. It's so bloody silly at times, isn't it? It's like playing dress-up, and other… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Surely we can train ourselves to an empathic imaginative sympathy for another species. Taught what to look for in facial features, gestures,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I think having a diversity of stories is important in also just spreading empathy and understanding. I think it's a really big… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“If I could give one message to the bullies, it would be this: You are incredible. You are bound for great things.… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You… — Ry Russo-Young Copy Share Image
“If I had an ear 2 confide in I would cry among my treasured friends But who do u know that stops… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“You cannot experience something if you don’t have the necessary sensitivity, and you cannot develop your sensitivity except by undergoing a long… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so unattractive as a whiny person. We can have empathy for a person in deep emotional pain. But a… — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Empathy depends not only on one's ability to identify someone else's emotions but also on one's capacity to put oneself in the… — Charles G Copy Share Image
“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“We employed our tactical empathy by recognizing and then verbalizing the predictable emotions of the situation. We didn’t just put ourselves in… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
“the behaviors and skills we want and expect our kids to demonstrate, like sound decision making, control of their emotions and bodies,… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“A universal vision and a joint interest are steppingstones for full-blown empathy, and explicitly through empathy, we seize the pulsating assets of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“...ambitious intelligence [is] a force that can demolish the 'heart's reasons' — namely, a warm empathy, a considerateness toward others, a willingness,… — Robert Coles, M.D Copy Share Image
I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into… — John M. Perkins Copy Share Image
“Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image