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Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.
There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
Putting a credible form of Brexit to the people and offering Remain as an alternative will give Labour the chance to unite as a party.
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting a print on whatever I can.
Republicans are listening and offering better solutions that get Washington out of your way, out of your pocket, and back on your side.
There's no trend lines that work in entertainment. You can break any trend line by offering value that we as consumers of content want.
The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.
Offering thoughts and prayers are a valuable way to let loved ones know you care, but no one should offer them at the expense of action.
Upload Radio is a new venture offering content creators and bedroom DJs the chance to get their own programmes on the air by buying time.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.
We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.
I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity.
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
When people come offering you quality work, I think that is a result of the sheer hardwork and dedication I have had towards my profession.
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
The ideas that you find funny and the things that you are offering to an audience are tied up with who you are and your soul and your heart.
Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
I want to work with Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Karan Johar, and, of course, any other director who is offering a great role to play in a film.
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.
What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price.
Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
The Trump administration has been quietly moving to systematically undermine health care putting lives at risk and offering no alternative solution.
And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles)
If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.
To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.