Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Eagleman

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Anna Quindlen

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

Sissy Spacek

He is just fantastic. As Ruth Fowler, I had to hate him while we were filming. And when I saw the film, I had such empathy for him.

Imelda Staunton

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

Carl Rogers

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

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

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.

Spouses have worries about their spending habits, financial commitments and lifestyles. Meanwhile, they know they need to show empathy and support.

My prayer is that each of us look inside our own hearts. It takes a willingness to pause before we make an assumption. I think all this erupts because we don't wait -- we react. And the willingness to have empathy and just imagine what it would be like to be in someone else's skin -- that's my prayer.

Tommy Amaker

Well, we know their staff, we have empathy for what they're going through, what they've gone through all season.

Eric Fischl

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Empathy is not a substitute for introspection. Stepping into someone else's shoes because yours don't fit means you still get to walk in ill-fitting shoes, you just don't get to own them.

You see people on rooftops. You see people separated from parents. There's a lot of empathy and sympathy.

It seems like an obscure rule. I think we could all have been guilty of it if we don't watch it. I have more empathy for him than anything, really.

Hans Hofmann

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

George Saunders

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

Gary Bauer

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

Fra Angelico

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Goldie Hawn

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Harper Lee

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Eric Zorn

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

Jacques Rogge

These were Games of heart, warmth and empathy and smiles. I must say the venues were perhaps the most remarkable in Winter Games history.

In another two months, all this empathy for Sharon will be over.

Barack Obama

It's puzzling, given his immediate response during 9/11, that he did not feel a greater sense of empathy toward the folks that were experiencing this enormous disaster, ... This Week.

Jeremy Rifkin

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Gillian Anderson

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Jay Griffiths

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Hugh Jackman

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Horace Greeley

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Enrico Caruso

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?

Eoin Colfer

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

Ira Glass

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.