![This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. 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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/this-enthusiasm-for-empathy-may-be-misplaced-empathy-has-some-unfortunate-feat.jpg)
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smart stupid people
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them. Aaron Sorkin
smart thinking rooms
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
smart father hero
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.' Alan King
smart moving thinking
We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move. Charlie Cox
smart intelligent average
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smart matter singularity
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
smart took
When it was there, he took it. When it wasn't that was pretty much the end of it. It is just being a smart player. Isaac Bruce
smart odd-one idiot
If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses. Ricky Gervais
empathy mind enchantment
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales. Charles de Lint
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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. David Miliband
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When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering. Eckhart Tolle
empathy fiction stranger
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. Barbara Kingsolver
empathy quality selling
Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship. Brian Tracy
empathy trying scare
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary. Jane Fonda
empathy enlightenment way
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. Derrick Bell
empathy may gaps
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy. Daniel Goleman
may traitor very-true
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did. C. S. Lewis
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be. Agnes Smedley
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may mathematics mathematical
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may attention talent
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may cost lovers
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