Emotional intelligence Quotes

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

- A. E. van Vogt

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.

- Abigail Disney

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

- Aimee Bender

The successful entrepreneurs that I see have two characteristics: self-awareness and persistence. They're able to see problems in their companies through their self-awareness and be persistent enough to solve them.

- Alan Schaaf

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

- Alanis Morissette

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.

- Alex Flinn

It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.

- Alex Wolff

'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.

- Alexandra Kleeman

Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.

- Alia Shawkat

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

- Alice Walker

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

- Allison Williams

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

- Amanda de Cadenet

There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

- Ana Navarro

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

- Anderson Cooper

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.

- Andrea Arnold

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

- Andrew Sean Greer

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

- Andy Dunn

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

- Andy Dunn

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.

- Andy Hertzfeld

I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.

- Angela Ahrendts

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

- Annie Leibovitz

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

- Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

- Annie Lennox

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

- Annie Lennox

Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

- Anohni

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

- Anthony Marra

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

- Ashton Kutcher

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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.

- Bat for Lashes

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

- Bill Burr

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

- Bill Drayton

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

- Billy Eichner

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

- Blase J. Cupich

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

- Britt Robertson

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

- Bruce Rauner

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

- Bruno Dumont

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

- Cara Delevingne

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

- Carly Fiorina

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

- Cate Blanchett

Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building empathy.

- Celeste Ng

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

- Celeste Ng

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

- Chanda Kochhar

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

- Charles Bock

What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.

- Chris Gibson

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.

- Chris Meledandri

Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.

- Chris Milk

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.

- Chris Milk

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

- Chris Sacca

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

- Chris Ware

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

- Christian Bale

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

- Claire Danes

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

- Claire Danes

I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

- Clare-Hope Ashitey

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

- Clint Smith

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

- Clint Smith

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

- Cole Sprouse

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

- Colum McCann

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.

- Dan Chaon

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

- Daniel Dennett

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

- Daniel Goleman

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

- Daniel Goleman

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

- Daniel Goleman

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

- Daniel Goleman

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

- Daniel Goleman

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.

- Daniel H. Pink

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.

- Daniel H. Pink

The Kind Foundation was created to scale our social impact and be able to deepen our focus on fostering empathy and developing kinder communities.

- Daniel Lubetzky

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

- Daniel Lubetzky

Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.

- Daniel Lubetzky

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

- Dash Mihok

I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.

- David Cohen

The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.

- David Grinspoon

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

- David Hanson

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

- David Hanson

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

- David Harsanyi

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.

- David M. Kelley

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

- David Miliband

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.

- David Simon

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

- Dayananda Saraswati

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

- Debbie Ford

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

- Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

- Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

- Deepak Chopra

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

- Deepak Chopra

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

- Dennis Prager

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

- Diane Ackerman

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.

- Dominic Cooper

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

- Douglas Hodge

People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.

- Edward Enninful

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

- Ellen Key

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

- Elvis Mitchell

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

- Eric Kandel

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.

- Eric Whitacre

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

- Erin Gruwell

Human beings are created with empathy. Art serves that purpose. So why should I be disinterested in a character who's a man, and why should a man shy away from a show that's female-driven?

- Evelyne Brochu

Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

- Florence Henderson

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

- Francis Spufford

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

- Frans de Waal

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

- Frans de Waal

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

- Fred Willard

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

- Gary Bauer

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

- Gary Bauer

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

- Gavin Hood

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

- Geoff Johns

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

- George A. Sheehan

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

- George McGovern

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

- George W. Romney

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

- Gloria Steinem

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.

- Graydon Carter

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

- Greg Rucka

I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist.

- Greta Gerwig

To me, race is not all about grievance. It is also about pride and empathy and humanity and understanding the value of difference. But along with that, there are also expectations that we should set for ourselves and for others. We should expect to be treated as equal citizens.

- Gwen Ifill

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

- Harry Browne

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

- Henry Rollins

You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

- Hilary Mason

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

- Howard Rheingold

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

- Hugh Jackman

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

- Imelda Staunton

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

- J. William Fulbright

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

- Jason Silva

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

- Javier Bardem

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

- Jay Griffiths

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

- Jeff Perry

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

- Jesmyn Ward

If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.

- Jessica Chastain

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

- Jill Lepore

Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

- Joanne Liu

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

- John Barton

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

- John Connolly

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

- John Cornyn

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

- John Gerzema

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

- John Gerzema

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

- John Hickenlooper

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.

- John Lloyd Young

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

- John Ortberg

Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.

- John Rampton

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

- John Shirley

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

- Jon Ronson

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

- Jonathan Groff

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

- Jonathan Groff

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

- Jonathan Tropper

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

- Jose Antonio Vargas

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

- Joshua Leonard

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

- Judy Sheindlin

I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.

- Julia Hartz

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

- Juliana Hatfield

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

- Julie Andrews

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.

- Justin Cronin

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

- Justin Simien

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

- Justin Trudeau

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

- Karl Rove

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

- Kate Middleton

Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.

- Katherine Ryan

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

- Kathy Bates

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.

- Kavita Ramdas

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

- Kelly Corrigan

I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent.

- Krysten Ritter

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

- Kyle MacLachlan

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

- Lakhdar Brahimi

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

- Laura Benanti

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

- Laura Carmichael

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

- Laura Linney

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

- Lauren London

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

- Leslie Jamison

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

- Leslie Jamison

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

- Leslie Jamison

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

- Leslie Morgan Steiner

What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.

- Liam Cunningham

I'm passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.

- Lily Collins

Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

- Lizzo

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

- Mae Jemison

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

- Malorie Blackman

Adaptability is key.

- Marc Andreessen

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

- Marianne Williamson

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

- Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

- Mark Knopfler

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

- Martin McDonagh

Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.

- Martin McGuinness

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

- Mary H.K. Choi

I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness.

- Mary Lambert

I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

- Mary Lambert

Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.

- Matt Bellamy

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

- Matt McGorry

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

- Matt Taibbi

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

- Matthieu Ricard

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

- Matthieu Ricard

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

- Max Carver

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

- Maya Angelou

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.

- Maya Soetoro-Ng

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

- Mehmet Oz

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

- Meryl Streep

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

- Mia Wasikowska

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

- Michael Gove

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.

- Michael Redhill

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

- Michael Shermer

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

- Michelle Rodriguez

Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

- Mike White

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

- Mohsin Hamid

What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.

- Molly Ivins

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

- Monica Dolan

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

- Morgan Neville

The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?

- Muhammad Ali

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

- Nathan Englander

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

- Neil Gaiman

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

- Neko Case

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

- Nell Scovell

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

- Nick McDonell

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

- Oprah Winfrey

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

- Oscar Isaac

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

- Patricia Sun

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

- Patrick Rothfuss

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.

- Paul Bloom

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

- Paul Bloom

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

- Paul Bloom

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

- Paul Haggis

The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.

- Paul Sparks

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

- Peter Morgan

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

- Phil Klay

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.

- Rachel Morrison

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

- Rachel Weisz

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

- Ralph Fiennes

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

- Richard Cohen

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

- Richard Eyre

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

- Richard Ford

Other species help children develop empathy.

- Richard Louv

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

- Richard Rohr

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

- Roger Ebert

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

- Rumaan Alam

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

- Rupert Friend

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

- Samantha Power

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

- Sara Ramirez

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

- Sebastian Lelio

Clevelanders care about underdogs, partly because we are, partly because we have empathy, and we're - we have faith in our God and faith in humanity, and that makes us support the underdog.

- Sherrod Brown

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

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

- Siri Hustvedt

The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.

- Stanley A. McChrystal

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

- Stephen Covey

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

- Sterling K. Brown

I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.

- Steve Mnuchin

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

- Steve Rushin

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

- Steve Toltz

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

- Steven Pinker

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

- Stewart Butterfield

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

- Sue Monk Kidd

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

- Susan Sarandon

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

- Sydney Pollack

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

- T. J. Miller

'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.

- Tarana Burke

We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.

- Tarana Burke

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

- Tarana Burke

'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

- Tarana Burke

There's a power in empathy.

- Tarana Burke

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

- Ted Dwane

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

- Ted Dwane

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

- Terri Apter

Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.

- Terri Irwin

Just like Steve did, Bindi's got that strange communication with wildlife. It's beautiful to watch, and it instills an empathy with all of us about just how important the animal kingdom is.

- Terri Irwin

True contentment comes with empathy.

- Tim Finn

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

- Tom King

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

- Tom Sturridge

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

- Trai Byers

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

- Tucker Carlson

One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.

- Tyler Joseph

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.

- W. Kamau Bell

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

- Wendy Kopp

The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges who will rule based on the law and to have empathy, if you will, for the law only and to rule based on the law.

- Wendy Long

Lady Justice doesn't have empathy for anyone. She rules strictly based upon the law, and that's really the only way that our system can function properly under the Constitution.

- Wendy Long

If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.

- Wendy Long

A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.

- Wendy Long

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in a way that desensitized us to the savages we'd become.

- Wesley Morris

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

- Winston Graham

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy.

- Yara Shahidi

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

- Yoko Ono

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

- Zadie Smith

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

- Zooey Deschanel