Empathy Quotes - Page 16

• After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

  Elif Safak

  Grief, People, Silence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Mean, Boys

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

  Jean Nouvel

  Memories, Vision, Tasks

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• My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

  Meredith Brooks

  People, Vices, Energy

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• Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

  Suzy Kassem

  Acceptance, Men, Suffering Of Others

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

  Ben Parr

  Compassion, Difficult Situations, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.

  Kobe Bryant

  Insecure, Buttons, Nerves

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• I always wonder about psychopaths, just because they have no empathy, does that necessarily mean they enjoy being cruel? Because we all know people who seem to have no empathy that we work with; they're not necessarily cruel.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Mean, People, Doe

  "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

  Tucker Carlson

  Writing, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Want, Audience, Stills

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

  Johnny Cash

  Differences, Making A Difference, Back When

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

  Paula Broadwell

  Media, Alive, Imagine

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

  George W. Bush

  Realizing, Ifs

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

  Cleve Jones

  Identity Politics, Gone, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us because of her faith, well, if you can't have empathy how will you ever have solidarity?

  Cleve Jones

  Color, Solidarity, Understand Me

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Brain, Sound

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.

  Simon Sinek

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Goal

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.

  Ross W. Greene

  Honesty, Kids, Skills

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Problem, Manifestation, Things To Do

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

  Saschka Unseld

  Feelings, Versus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

  Rose Troche

  Feels, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Expression, Acting

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.

  Jessica Chastain

  Hurt, People, Monsters

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference. It's understanding that by the true measure, we are all neighbors and countrymen, call to each one of us to know what is right and kind and just and to go and do likewise.

  Paul Ryan

  Real, Circles, Understanding

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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