I've had empathy toward what Carson McCullers calls "the invisible people" all my life and was inherently interested in what redeemed Mancil… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
“...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.” — Doreen Orion Copy Share Image
“By the time children are in their teens, two new skills are added to this repertoire. One is the ability to manage… — Elizabeth M. Ellis 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 way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
My parents really instilled in me the importance of helping people. That involves helping and serving people in the community, but also… — Trevor Lawrence Copy Share Image
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a… — Christopher Hitchens 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
An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own. — Martin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“On April 11, 2011, Oriel FeldmanHall of Cambridge University ran an experiment as to how people would react when they had to… — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and… — Bob Galvin Copy Share Image
“And sociopaths are noted especially for their shallowness of emotion, the hollow and transient nature of any affectionate feelings they may claim… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
