Empathy Quote by Erin Gruwell Download Open image “Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.” — Erin Gruwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empathy Evoke Way Writing
If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you. — Tom King Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off. — Matt McGorry 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 truth about… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual,… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance. — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate. — Viv Albertine 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
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy… — Franck Khalfoun Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I try to treat every job with the exact same level of respect. When I go into it, it doesn't matter what the budget… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found themselves in… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot. — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image