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• Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

  John Vaillant

  Successful, Animal, Hunting

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage

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• A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

  David James

  Prayer, Imagination

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• Photography is an empathy towards the world.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, World

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• Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Years, Degrees, Research

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• An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

  Carl Rogers

  Teacher, Parent, Understanding

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• When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

  Carl Rogers

  Relax, Way, May

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal. Hidden in all of the personal communications which I really hear there seem to be orderly psychological laws, aspects of the same order we find in the universe as a whole. So there is both the satisfaction of hearing this person and also the satisfaction of feeling one's self in touch with what is universally true.

  Carl Rogers

  Communication, Self, Order

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.

  Carl Rogers

  Creative, Listening, Important

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

  Carl Rogers

  Evil, Quality, Abnormal

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• Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

  Carl Rogers

  Powerful, Needs, Moments

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• Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

  Carl Rogers

  Understanding, Feelings, Special

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• During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

  Enrico Caruso

  Feelings, Listening, Needs

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• Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.

  Daniel Batson

  Feelings, Welfare, Persons

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• Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

  Dada Vaswani

  Joy, Sorrow, Forget

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• Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

  Daniel Goleman

  May, Gaps, Impossible

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• Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

  Daniel Goleman

  Skills, Important, Foundation

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.137, Bantam

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• Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

  Daniel Goleman

  Creativity, Intelligent, Track

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• Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

  Daniel Goleman

  People, Needs, Clients

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.44, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Simple, Compassion, Needs

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• Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

  Daniel Goleman

  People, Leader, Important

  Daniel Goleman (2017). “What Makes a Leader? (Harvard Business Review Classics)”, p.23, Harvard Business Press

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• Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

  David Sylvester

  Looks, Paint, Identification

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• A man posing for a painting.

  David Hume

  Men, Painting, Posing

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• The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.

  David Hume

  Passion, Men, Mirrors

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.152

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• You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Ubuntu, Bundles

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• I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fashion, Heart, Expression

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories”, p.262, First Avenue Editions

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