Sympathetic Quotes - Page 7

• Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Choices, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".

  Allen W. Wood

  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

  Nan Goldin

  America

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

  E. J. Dionne

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

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• The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand.

  Henry Clausen

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Quality, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy.

  Caroline Myss

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• 1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Years, Looks, Pleasure

  1992 Speech at the Guildhall, 24 Nov.

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• But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.

  Giambattista Vico

  Art, Writing, Numbers

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• Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Children, Sacrifice, Motherhood

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• I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Men, Facts, Different

  "Leonardo DiCaprio On Playing A Repressed Gay Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• ...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

  Judith Guest

  Emotional, Sentimental, Weight

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• The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Fighting, Thinking, Wife

  "Jerry Seinfeld wants to save your marriage". Interview with Lucy Kaylin, www.oprah.com. April 2010.

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• Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.

  Bob Odenkirk

  People, Choices, Selfless

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• Don't try and mimic men - how they operate, how they do business, how they direct, write or are creative. They are not perfect. Women do it all differently, and that should be celebrated. We believe in collaboration, we are empathetic and sympathetic and we do tend to connect to stories and people on a different level. And this should all be celebrated.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

  Bill Nye

  Ideas, People, Community

  "It's that Guy! An Interview with 2010 Humanist of the Year Bill Nye". Interview with Clay Farris Naff, thehumanist.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, Strong, Art

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

  David Brooks

  Self

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Shining

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

  Robert Redford

  Struggle, Waiting Around, Nuts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Creativity, Past

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Age, Faces

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Opportunity, Sick

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

  Peter King

  People, Islam, Should

  "Rep. Peter King: There are 'too many mosques in this country'" by Daniel W. Reilly, www.politico.com. September 19, 2007.

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