Empathy Quotes - Page 17

• One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.

  Mark Coleman

  Opposites, Practice, Shoes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And 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, People, Making A Difference

  Source: news.wbfo.org

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• There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will try to create works that are original. Over a career period they may develop a singular identity in their images.

  Michael Kenna

  Artist, Careers, Excellence

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.

  Nick Morgan

  Mirrors, Neurons, Humans

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Writing, Busy, Fit

  "The Mystery Woman in the Field: Kristin Hannah Asks Christina Baker Kline About 'A Piece of the World'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 20, 2017.

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• Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

  Zach Anner

  People, Joy, Inspire

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever product or service you are providing and figure out ways of making it better, faster, cheaper. The other quality is empathy and insight into what people might want, even though they don't even know their wants, probably because there's no product or service to test their wants.

  Robert Reich

  People, Creative, Important

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.

  Robert Reich

  Quality, Together, Genius

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Agree

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of empathy and solidarity rather than a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they're interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they're actually in the same boat.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Thinking, Emotional, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.

  Gianna Simone

  Adversity, Hopeless, Difficult

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Laughing, Conscious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Empathy - that is, caring about people and acting responsibly on that care, not just for yourself, but for others - this is something that Barack Obama understands very well. He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago for ten years. As an expert on the Constitution and on our family values, he understands very well that the country is fundamentally about caring for one another. The day after his speech, he was interviewed on CNN, and Anderson Cooper asked him what patriotism was. He said patriotism begins with caring for one another.

  George Lakoff

  Country, Caring, People

  Source: truth-out.org

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• We now know, from the latest research about neurons, that we are hard-wired for empathy. We're hard-wired for cooperation. That is something about what we are as people - what it means to be a human being. And what Barack Obama was addressing was not just race or just the nature of politics. The great speeches address who we are as people, what it means to be a human being.

  George Lakoff

  Mean, People, Cooperation

  Source: truth-out.org

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• Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction -
  this taught empathy. If you read a novel, you're in someone else's head, in three, five different people's heads. Suddenly, the principle of "Don't do anything to anyone that you wouldn't want done to you" becomes real in people's minds. That's a fantastic achievement if fiction is indeed partly responsible for it. That's a great thing to be a part of. In the end, then, I don't know if writers have legislated, but they have civilized.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Achievement, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to go. Whenever I talk about this, I have to begin in the most boring of all possible ways: by defining my terms. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

  Paul Bloom

  Kindness, Book, Mean

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

  Paul Bloom

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

  Diane Ackerman

  Growing Up, Mirrors, Expression

  "The growing, feeling house of the future" by Diane Ackerman, archive.thedailystar.net. August 25, 2012.

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• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

  Theodor Adorno

  Imitating Others, Imitation, Humans

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.154, Verso

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Silence

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• I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

  Andrea Arnold

  Thinking, Details, Looks

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• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  Gary Bauer

  Principles, Virtue, Should

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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ignorance, Apathy, Sloppiness

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