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I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.
She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.
I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs...that's the "big kahuna" in managing people.
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together.
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.