Ability Quotes

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Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of… — Sam Vaknin
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings. — William Ickes
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. — Bill McKibben
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do… — Nhat Hanh
We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural… — John Blacking
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on… — Gretel Ehrlich
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and… — Mike Pence
Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow… — Sean Hannity
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing. — Neville Marriner
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. — Stephen Covey
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. — Victoria Woodhull
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in… — Henry Ford
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, weâ€™re in fact not loving people as much as weâ€™re using them… — Mark Driscoll

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