Active-listening Quote by Susan C. Young

“Empathetic listening is a finely tuned ability to go beyond words to discover the thoughts and feelings which live beneath a person’s surface presentation.”

— Susan C. Young

“Empaths feel more deeply, more intensely, and more persistently than those around us. We even feel what other people are afraid to feel within…

— Mateo Sol

“We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.”

— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

“When I say empathic listening, I mean listening with intent to understand. I mean seeking first to understand, to really understand. It’s an entirely…

— Stephen R. Covey

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

— Ralph Greenson

'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen…

— Stephen Covey

“Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.”

— Pearl Zhu

I'm very empathetic, and it allows me to almost know what people are thinking and how they truly feel. The only problem is, I…

— Selah Louise Marley

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

— Misty Copeland

“When I empathize, I feel the frailty and transitory nature of another's existence. To empathize is to root for the other to flourish and…

— Jeremy Rifkin

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

— Lupita Nyong'o

“Dear empath: You are a being of immense depth, wisdom, and compassion. You are a pioneer and trailblazer of humanity, a model for others…

— Mateo Sol