Empathy Quotes - page 2

A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. (Philip K. Dick)
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. View quote
Philip K. Dick
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer. View quote
Alex Flinn
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky. View quote
John Grogan
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. View quote
Justin Cronin
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity. View quote
Johan Galtung
If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character. View quote
Christopher Meledandri
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. (Max Carver)
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done. View quote
Andrea Arnold
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. View quote
Bill Drayton
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. View quote
David M. Kelley
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. View quote
David Simon
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective. View quote
Dan Chaon
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. View quote
Dominic Cooper
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion. View quote
Eric Whitacre
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. (George W. Romney)
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. View quote
Giles Duley
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. View quote
Graydon Carter
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated. View quote
John Shirley
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances. View quote
Kavita Ramdas