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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

Quotes by Wendy Kopp

Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.

Quotes by Tony Tan

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

Quotes by Tom Sturridge

True contentment comes with empathy.

Quotes by Tim Finn

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Quotes by Theodore C. Sorensen

We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.

Quotes by Tarana Burke

'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.

Quotes by Tarana Burke

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.

Quotes by Susan Sarandon

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.

Quotes by Steve Mnuchin

Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.

Quotes by Sharon Lawrence

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

Quotes by Sarah Ban Breathnach

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

Quotes by Samantha Power

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

Quotes by Rooney Mara

Other species help children develop empathy.

Quotes by Richard Louv

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

Quotes by Richard E. Grant

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

Quotes by Rana el Kaliouby

Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.

Quotes by Rajiv Menon

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Quotes by Rachel Weisz

Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.

Quotes by Rachel Morrison

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

Quotes by Phil Klay

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

Quotes by Paul Haggis

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

Quotes by Paul Bloom

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.

Quotes by Paul Bloom

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Quotes by Patricia Sun

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the suffering of other human beings.

Quotes by Owen Jones

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

Quotes by Neko Case

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

Quotes by Nell Scovell

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Neil Gaiman

There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your manners, your demeanor, your social skills. 'Substance' describes the inner core of your character - your intellect, your empathy, your creativity.

Quotes by Neil Blumenthal

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

Quotes by Morgan Neville

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

Quotes by Mia Wasikowska

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Quotes by Mehmet Oz

Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.

Quotes by Mazie Hirono

We've had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He's wise, he's patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.

Quotes by Max Joseph

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Quotes by Max Carver

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.

Quotes by Maryanne Wolf

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.

Quotes by Mary Gauthier

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

Quotes by Martin McDonagh

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

Quotes by Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Quotes by Malorie Blackman

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

Quotes by Leslie Jamison

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

Quotes by Leslie Jamison

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

Quotes by Leslie Jamison

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

Quotes by Laura Linney

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

Quotes by Laura Benanti

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

Quotes by Laura Carmichael

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Quotes by Lakhdar Brahimi

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

Quotes by Kyle MacLachlan

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

Quotes by Kelly Corrigan

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.

Quotes by Katie Kitamura

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

Quotes by Karl Rove

'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.

Quotes by Karl Rove

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.

Quotes by Jon Ronson

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Quotes by Jon Ronson

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Quotes by John Shirley

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

Quotes by John Gerzema

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

Quotes by John Connolly

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

Quotes by John Barton

Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

Quotes by Joanne Liu

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Quotes by Jill Lepore

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Quotes by J. William Fulbright

I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist.

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Quotes by Graydon Carter

The mobile revolution has dramatically changed our world view, empowered women, and increased our empathy. Corrupt governments have been toppled and wars avoided because our species has become so digitally connected.

Quotes by Gray Scott

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

Quotes by George W. Romney

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Quotes by Gavin Hood

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

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

Quotes by Gary Bauer

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

Quotes by Erin Gruwell

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

Quotes by Eric Kandel

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

Quotes by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.

Quotes by Elissa Slotkin

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

Quotes by Douglas Hodge

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

Quotes by Doug Jones

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

Quotes by Dominic Cooper

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

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Quotes by Dayananda Saraswati

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Quotes by David Miliband

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

Quotes by David Lange

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

Quotes by David Hanson

I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that.

Quotes by David Harbour

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

Quotes by David Harsanyi

My goal with 'Beyond' is really to create a strong sense of empathy between the player and Jodie Holmes.

Quotes by David Cage

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

Quotes by Dash Mihok

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

Quotes by Daniel Lubetzky

The Kind Foundation was created to scale our social impact and be able to deepen our focus on fostering empathy and developing kinder communities.

Quotes by Daniel Lubetzky

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Quotes by Daniel Goleman

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Quotes by Daniel Goleman

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

Quotes by Daniel Goleman

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