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  We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Thinking, Understanding

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Mother, Teenage

  "Empathy and the Supreme Court" by Jonah Goldberg, articles.latimes.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Pain, Struggle

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". Interview with Sheryl Sandberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Thinking, Understanding, Listening

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

  John M. Perkins

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Pain

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• Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

  Art Linkletter

  Pregnancy, Kids, Marijuana

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• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Our World, Self

  "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

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• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thankful, Kindness, Attitude

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Strength, Strong, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To perceive is to suffer.

  Aristotle

  Life, Depression, Education

  Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

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• People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Writing, Keys, People

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• Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Machines

  "Crush of the week: Roger Ebert" by Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2015.

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• Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

  George McGovern

  Biblical, Neighbor, Born

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• I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

  Joshua Leonard

  Roles, Levels, Humans

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• Leadership is about empathy.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Eye, Thinking

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.

  Nhat Hanh

  Hurt, Pain, Order

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• I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

  Kathy Bates

  Character, Play, Challenges

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• I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

  Winston Graham

  Typewriters, Creative, Suggestions

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  Karl Rove

  Views, Justice, Clay

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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• Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Memorable, Listening To Others

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 469), 2006.

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• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Courage, Humility, Important

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• Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

  Mary Martin

  Dream, Thoughtful, Thinking

  "Right Time, Right Place, Right Move, Right Now!". Book by Perry W. Buffington, Section I : Life, 1992.

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• When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

  Yann Martel

  Selfish, Survival, Life Is

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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