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
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
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are… — William Ickes Copy Share Image
The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is… — Anonymous 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 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
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to… — Damion Searls Copy Share Image
“Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
“Too many men I know experience shame because society places pressure on them to withhold emotion: emotion and sensitivity is weak. I… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
“Resisting, identifying with, and suppressing emotions is the number one reason why we become so sick and overwhelmed as empaths. But the… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
“[Roger] Waters has suggested that empathy is the central theme of all the band[Pink Floyd]'s classic, mature works beginning with [the album]… — George A. Reisch Copy Share Image
“So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“I think you’re very effective as a mediator, from what I’ve seen so far. Your genuine empathy shows; it literally glows on… — M.A. Clarke Scott Copy Share Image
“Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive,… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary.… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image