Empathy Quotes · Page 16

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.

— David Cohen

'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.

— Tarana Burke

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

— Stephen Covey

Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.

— Mazie Hirono

The Five Senses of the Soul: Intuition…Peace…Foresigh t...Trust ... Empathy… ¥

— Anonymous

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

— Georges Braque

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

— Nell Scovell

One day youll look back and realize how you treated me and maybe, if you finally grew up you might actually feel…

— Anonymous

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger…

— Zadie Smith

“A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain…

— Flannery O'Connor

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing…

— Matt McGorry

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend…

— Wes Fesler

We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.

— Michael Rosen

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once…

— Christina Baker Kline

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

“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

“Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was…

— Rudyard Kipling

“There is nothing so unattractive as a whiny person. We can have empathy for a person in deep emotional pain. But a…

— Gary Rohrmayer

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

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

“Some argue that there is a spectrum of what we should expect as normal human character flaws. Narcissism seems to be the…

— Shannon Thomas

I found being a coach in 'The Ultimate Fighter' series hard because I had to care about others. I don't feel a…

— Forrest Griffin

“I hate the assumption that you can’t write about something because you haven’t experienced it, and not just because it assumes a…

— Stephen King

“Approaching the trail, he broke through the thicket a short distance ahead of the Empath. Causing the Empaths horse to startle as…

— Alaina Stanford

“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part…

— George Lakoff

There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the…

— Carl Rogers

I'm not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I…

— Hillary Clinton

“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,…

— Andrew Wilson

“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Satisfied needs do not motivate. It’s only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human…

— Stephen R. Covey

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

— Pema Chodron

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

— John Connolly

You would never survive a day in my skin, so don't try to tell me you know how I feel.

— Colin Olsen

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

— Justin Simien

Acting is probably the only profession where you are relying only on empathy.

— Richa Chadha

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

— Prince

“Sensitivity is the man’s best move to reach the heart of a woman.”

— Anoir Ou-Chad