Empathy : (45)

" It’s weird, but I’m so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I’m a Midwestern guy, so I think I’m just naturally nice and polite. " - Sean Evans

" At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club – when you’re that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that’s a difficult position to be in. " - Mahershala Ali

" I think that music is a deeply personal thing for me that I can tell my stories and experiences through. Acting is a really great opportunity to practice empathy and experience other people’s perspectives and lives. " - Miles Robbins

" When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson. " - Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

" What I like about ‘Paper Girls’ in particular is that, because we’re approaching it more from a female perspective, we’re able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more and think more of their interiority. " - Cliff Chiang

" Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted – brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit. " - Sinead Burke

" I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I’d see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don’t do anything physically, you don’t say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart. " - Sam Brownback

" We don’t always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what’s really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say. " - Julie Sweet

" I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. " - Chinua Achebe

" On TV, the nitty-gritty of trials takes place between commercial breaks, whereas, of course, reality is infinitely more complex. True crime also makes us more empathetic. " - Robert Rinder