“I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.” — Starley Ard Copy Share Image
As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity. — Russell Hornsby Copy Share Image
Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name — Eyedea Copy Share Image
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
“If anything there appears to be an indignant kind of mateship here, a loyalty that precludes empathy.” — Anna Krien Copy Share Image
Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion. — Rachel Morrison 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
An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
“But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Being empathic is so much a part of everyday discourse—popular singers warble platitudes about being in the other’s skin, walking in the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness… Sensitivity denies equal access… — Scott M. Roberts Copy Share Image
“Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many -… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
“Just as an adult-oriented child is more vulnerable in relationship to his parents and teachers, peer-oriented kids are more so in relationship… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image