Empathy Quotes - Page 31

• For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Truth, Reality, Deception

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• The best mirror is an old friend.

  George Herbert

  Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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• Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Ideas

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• Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Giving, Mind

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• Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

  Betty Edwards

  Teacher, Writing, Students

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• You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Pain, Sorrow

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• No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

  George Washington

  Country, Believe, Mean

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.155

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• The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Understanding, Brain, Males

  Simon Baron-Cohen (2010). “The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism (Large Print 16pt)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

  Victor LaValle

  Teenage, Boys, Humans

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.121, Oldcastle Books

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• Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Demand, Shifting, Ethics

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  Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

  Judy Garland

  Littles, Wonderful, Gentle

  "Little Girl Lost". Book by Al DiOrio, 1974.

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• You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Character, Play, Understanding

  "Mia Wasikowska Interview JANE EYRE; Updates on RESTLESS and THE WETTEST COUNTY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2011.

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• We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

  David Foster

  Real, Suffering, World

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• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  Laura Carmichael

  Sympathy, Character, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

  Courtney Love

  Rap, Mean, Thinking

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• So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reading, Writing, Training

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Powerful, People

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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• A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy.

  Nan Goldin

  Photography, Art, Emotional

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• Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Being A Mother, Quality, Culture

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• One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

  Charles M. Blow

  Men, Understanding, Vices

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• Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Compassion, Views

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• If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

  Gavin McInnes

  Normal, Failing, Virtue

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• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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