Empathic Quotes

#1. The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth. - Author: Jeremy Rifkin

#2. Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life. - Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#3. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have. - Author: Jeffrey Kluger

#4. If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#5. We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles. - Author: Alexandria Ruffian

#6. 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. - Author: Matthieu Ricard

#7. Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father. - Author: Daniel Goleman

#8. The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing. - Author: William Keepin

#9. The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. - Author: Carl Rogers

#10. It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood. - Author: John Green

#11. What made me empathic was my depressions. - Author: Alice Weaver Flaherty

#12. Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first. - Author: William Fitzsimmons

#13. Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. - Author: Mary Oliver

#14. Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care. - Author: Paul Bloom

#15. Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul. - Author: Michele Jennae

#16. Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity. - Author: Daniel Goleman

#17. Every empathic human heart seeks meaning. - Author: Jeffrey A. White

#18. Allowing yourself to become empathic to the point of being traumatized by another's experience is unnecessary and ineffective. - Author: Deborah Sandella

#19. Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener. - Author: Daniel H. Pink

#20. This is a perfect picture of what you want to develop in the soul of your child: a desire to do the right things and to avoid the wrong ones because of empathic concern for others and because of a healthy respect for the demands of God's reality. - Author: Henry Cloud

#21. The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell - Author: Heinz Kohut

#22. But as for Gabriel Sullivan." Ren reach out his six-fingered hand toward me. I clasped it. Warmth flooded me. But something else. Certainty. Trust. Compassion. Courage. He pulled his hand back, smiled. "That is all I can tell you. - Author: Linnea Sinclair

#23. Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for. - Author: Frans De Waal

#24. Mindsight is a teachable skill at the heart of being empathic and insightful, moral and compassionate. - Author: Daniel J. Siegel

#25. We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what's rising in its place, the Conceptual Age. - Author: Daniel H. Pink

#26. I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends. - Author: Alanis Morissette

#27. Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom. - Author: Sergio De La Pava

#28. Your tears for others will float you closer toward God. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#29. Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#30. Empathy is the door to wisdom. - Author: Suzy Kassem

#31. Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air. - Author: Stephen Covey

#32. To me, relationship is sacred because the spirit of God is manifest in empathic connection. - Author: Helen LaKelly Hunt

#33. We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness. - Author: Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#34. The study of God requires intellectual effort, historical imagination, empathic energy, and participation in a vital community of prayer (Augustine, Answer to Skeptics). - Author: Thomas C. Oden

#35. Separate between confident, detached, and forceful correspondence styles, and practice self-assured and empathic interrelating." Every - Author: Scott Mercer

#36. I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. - Author: Catherine Opie

#37. The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. - Author: Dave Mearns

#38. I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. - Author: Steven Spielberg

#39. I think there's some evidence that we're empathic by nature. There is some evidence from studies of babies and young children that they resonate with the pain of others, and there's some work by Frans de Waal that other primates also resonate with the pain of others. - Author: Paul Bloom

#40. Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. - Author: Philip K. Dick

#41. People who are empathic definitely will have some difficulties distinguishing their own feelings from other people's feelings and they tend to take on other people's energies quite easily. - Author: Doreen Virtue

#42. I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes. - Author: Paul Bloom

#43. ...rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell. - Author: Marc Bekoff

#44. Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way. In a word - messy. - Author: Brene Brown

#45. The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful. - Author: Pamela Stephenson

#46. The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#47. Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too. - Author: Dani Shapiro

#48. So the more we give our kids practice at considering how someone else feels or experiences a situation, the more empathic and caring they will become. - Author: Daniel J. Siegel

#49. Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person. - Author: Christopher Stanley