Empathetic Quotes

• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

  Susan Sarandon

  Kindness, Power, Imagination

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• I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Michael Kors: American Idol" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."

  Eve Ensler

  Warrior, People, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Theres a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

  Will Arnett

  Lying, People, Awful

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• Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

  Dean Koontz

  Character, Long, Empathy

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• Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

  John Warnock

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

  Kristen Bell

  Tears, Bugs, Faults

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• Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

  Ann Patchett

  Skills, Two, Giving

  "Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Raj’ Ad: Where Do We Draw the Line?" by Eleni Gage, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• What is your personal definition of "good"?
  A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

  Bill Drayton

  Love, Exercise, World

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• A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they're really inspiring because they seem wise; they've gone through things.

  BANKS

  Wise, People, Role Models

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Anytime I get an acting role, I find a way to learn about something new, or heal a part of my life that I didn't know was hurting. I think anybody could benefit from taking acting classes. You don't necessarily have to want to be an actor or pursue the acting business. But just taking an acting class, you're going to learn so much about life and what it's like to walk in somebody else's shoes. It helps you stop judging people. It does something to you where you become empathetic to people's plights and journeys, and it makes you a little more understanding and caring.

  Travis Aaron Wade

  Hurt, Caring, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Surrendered people know themselves and are empathetic toward others. They don't measure themselves by how much they are liked, nor do they compete for attention. When they sit quietly in a room, others always seem to come to them. They feel successful apart from their job or net worth.

  Judith Orloff

  Jobs, Successful, People

  "7 Habits of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.

  Lee Hirsch

  Bullying, Struggle, Kids

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• I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kindness, People, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

  Glenn Beck

  Justice, Want, Blind

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

  Biz Stone

  Culture, Coworker

  "Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Interview at Wisdom 2.0" by Soren Gordhamer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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• If I want people to be empathetic to my struggle - they don't see hate crimes at the mosque, they don't see people screaming at their cousins, brothers, or sisters who wear a hijab to "go back to your country" - I have to do the same.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Country, Cousin, Brother

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

  Paul Walker

  Strong, Heart, Caring

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013

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• On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become super aggressive and unhinged. I should probably get off of Twitter and see a therapist.

  Joe Mande

  Nice, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Ideas, Profound

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• You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Emotional

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• 'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'

  Gordon Quinn

  Dream, Powerful, Struggle

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.

  Paul Madonna

  Running, Dream, Art

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Honesty, Emotional, Quality

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