Empathize Versus Quotes

#1. It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships.

David Chiles

#2. Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Peter Singer

#3. I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

Johnny Carson

#4. Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Meryl Streep

#6. The heart must not only feel, but also empathize with humanity for therein the reflective is ItSelf, in concert - Christ Consciousness

AainaA-Ridtz

#7. Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

Dan Chaon

#8. Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

Michael Redhill

#9. If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Steven Pinker

#10. Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see ... Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive ...

Ashok Kallarakkal

#11. I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

Dan Rather

#12. I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

Finn Wittrock

#13. Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

Iain Banks

#14. I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

Chris Pratt

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

David Eagleman

#16. It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn't know their purpose, they get lost.

Emmanuel Jal

#17. Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#18. I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

Deborah Harkness

#19. I'd never actually talked to a deaf person before but I'd been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt that underwater silence as I shook my head and watched people's mouths moving without hearing the words, so I knew what it was like for her. I could empathize.

Paul Neilan

#20. Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that hearing a story - a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end - causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin. These chemicals trigger the uniquely human abilities to connect, empathize, and make meaning.

Brene Brown

#21. In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

Amber Valletta

#22. The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

Conrad Hall

#23. Oh, fuck. Those kinds of tests. I wish I could empathize, but the only disease lesbians get from sex is lockjaw.

Tiffany Reisz

#24. We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.

Simon Sinek

#25. I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

K.d. Lang

#26. As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Daniel Sharman

#27. I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.

Marc Jacobs

#28. I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#29. As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

LZ Granderson

#30. We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

Danny Boyle