“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
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
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
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
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
“Some empathy must be learned and then imagined, by perceiving the suffering of others and translating it into one's own experience of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Vulnerability scares most of us because we've been taught that FEELING our feelings is a sign of "over-sensitivity and weakness". We've taught… — Marlene Milner Copy Share Image
“It's not a question we ask ourselves enough, I think; as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“-A Word On Statistics- Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them… — Steven Pinker 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
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
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
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
As a kid, acting was my big escape. It's a way to experience worlds that I might not otherwise get to and… — Katy O'Brian 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
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
“Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five... (it) is... "a second by second,… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
We will never be enlightened unless we realize and own what our capacity, from the best of the best to the worst… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in… — Walt Whitman 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
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
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
“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
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
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