Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Glass

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Jonathan Haidt

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Peter Greenaway

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber

In the beginning was the relationship.

Martin Buber

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Martin Buber

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

Peter Singer

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

Katherine Ellison

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Joshua Leonard

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.

Judy Garland

Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Paul Bloom

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

Paul Bloom

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

Paul Bloom

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Leadership is about empathy.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Gloria Steinem

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Gloria Steinem

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

John Shirley

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

Terence

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

John Wooden

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

Maureen O'Hara

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

Matthieu Ricard

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Theodor Adorno

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Libba Bray

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

Stefan Molyneux

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

Roger Ebert

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

William Safire

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

Zhuangzi

Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

Zhuangzi

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.