“What were needed were simple psychological tactics and strategies that worked in the field to calm people down, establish rapport, gain trust,… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
“All three of our species have empathy, we have sympathy, we have a sense of fairness - the Babyeaters even tell stories… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
As a caregiver, I always thought I had empathy for Chris's situation, and certainly one family member's disability affects the whole family… — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Dwyane is just sensational. Look, he has all the qualities of a champion, of a winner, of a Hall of Fame player… — Erik Spoelstra Copy Share Image
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“While I may not appreciate someone’s actions in the moment, it is useful to try to understand and relate to the possible… — Kathy Obear Copy Share Image
“Empathy is defined this way: “the ability to share and understand the feelings of another.” Women talking for hours at a lunch.… — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Their analysis revealed that a number of psychopathic attributes were actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals--attributes such… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
“Most of us think about empathy as a “feeling” or an “emotion.” It is. To be empathetic is to be able to… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm more attuned than ever to the proliferation of groups that are working for justice and equality. They're all over the country.… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
“My other boy thing is that I sort of have a teeny tiny superpower. It’s not a jump-over-buildings, see-through-people’s-clothes, or lift-a-train-over-my-head one,… — Charise Mericle Harper Copy Share Image
“Continually swimming in an endless sea of sensation can at times be exhausting, regardless if it’s beautifully terrible or terribly beautiful, and… — Daphne Rose Kingma Copy Share Image
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity - they weren't liberal Christians by any means, they were… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“Stories let us see and hear and feel what someone else does,” she explained. “They build bridges to the other islands. That’s… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“As we say our final goodbyes here today, let us carry forward the lessons of Kyle's life and continue to weave the… — Lo Monaco Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“any community or family discussion, those who are the first to introduce concern for empathy feel powerless, and are trying to use… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
