Empathize Quotations

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

My first job is to entertain, but if, while you're enjoying, you start to question something you never thought about before or empathize with, relate to, love someone you only thought of as 'other' once upon a time - how awesome is that.

Now the decision to play a role is halfway towards understanding the character, because you empathize with it and that's why you want to play it.

Obviously it was a good quarter for us. We understand that people are quite upset with the price they're paying at the pump, and we empathize with it.

She's entirely relatable. You empathize with her so strongly and you feel what she's feeling.

I empathize with need to get away, rest and heal. I want to create a sanctuary where other weary souls can escape from the rat race.

He's going through the same thing I went through last year. I can empathize with him.

We can empathize with our own law enforcement brothers. I don't think we could ever compare our tragedy to their catastrophe.

Like others, Kathie Lee Gifford, Martha Stewart, Drew Barrymore, Halle Berry and Jennifer Capriati, to name a few, women generally like Winona, and empathize with her, feeling that she is being treated improperly.

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

I think the fans could see in his face and body language that he was bothered when things didn't go well. They appreciate work ethic and even empathize with him from time to time. But it's probably not a good thing to do it in back-to-back seasons.

Our workers understand that we empathize with the immigration issues, but, at the same time, tomatoes need harvesting.

I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.

Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures ... and that generates fear and insecurity and an inability to empathize with the other side.

We empathize with them and feel their pain. What we should say to them is thank you for their sacrifice. It's a pain for the country and an individual pain for those people who live there.

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

I've seen them grow together as a group, cooperatively helping one another. They have learned how to empathize with others and interact with peers from other grades.

We couldn't have done it without them. They had their own life experience they were bringing with them, many of whom lost everything their homes, their jobs. They truly could empathize and relate to the other evacuees.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

Although the trip was physically and even emotionally draining, our group still had the ability to empathize with the victims and understand what they were going through.

I mean, if one really wants to empathize with the people who are suffering in our country, one does not go to the suburb.

If people are organized the wrong way (and) they do not empathize with the customer then what you tend to have is a lot of money spent on some technology project, which goes down a rat hole.

As someone who craves the fetal position, I empathize with this sentiment. I'm just so glad I took the risk so early on in life.

In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

You'd have to be dead not to empathize with these people. What a tragedy for people to be without food in the United States of America.

It's just not fear and ignorance, obviously that's where hate begins, ... There are a lot of intelligent people, a lot of people who are confused and there are a lot of people who suspect they don't know the real story, and on that I empathize with them.

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.

I certainly empathize with people. I'm sure that they're going to pay more taxes than they had anticipated, ... This is not happening just here in Citrus County. This is happening all over America. When you have a building boom like this, that's the outcome.