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I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.
Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.
We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.
If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.
I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.
I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.
Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.