Leslie Jamison Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

  Leslie Jamison

  Mean, Knowing, Imagination

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.8, Granta Books

• Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

  Leslie Jamison

  Choices, Empathy, Brain

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.23, Granta Books

• I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.

  Leslie Jamison

  Thinking, Empathy, Attention

  Source: therumpus.net

• Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

  Leslie Jamison

  Issues, Empathy, Limits

  Source: therumpus.net

• Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

  Leslie Jamison

  Empathy, Our Actions, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

• Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

  Leslie Jamison

  Knowing, Empathy, Knows

• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Theft

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books

• I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Feelings

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.16, Granta Books

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