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Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot -- Iain Banks
Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Love is a verb. Love "? the feeling "? is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. -- Stephen Covey
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives. -- Roger Ebert
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them. -- Masashi Kishimoto
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with. -- Natalie Portman
As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for. -- Daniel Sharman
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. -- Deborah Harkness
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize. -- Martin Freeman
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through. -- Jill Hennessy
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. -- LZ Granderson
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. -- LZ Granderson
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. -- Conrad Hall
So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame. -- David Byrne
I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them. -- Marc Jacobs
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. -- Elif Safak
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced. -- Dan Chaon
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. -- J. K. Rowling
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them. -- Steven Pinker
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. -- Chris Pratt
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. -- Paul Bloom
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. -- Hillary Clinton
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. -- Romulus Whitaker
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully. -- Hugh Laurie
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched. -- Vernor Vinge
With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize. -- Tobias Segal
The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person. -- Ralph Greenson
It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize. -- Meryl Streep
It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize! -- Jane Goodall
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on. -- Matthew Vaughn
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide -- Jonathan Haidt
In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son. -- Amber Valletta
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. -- J. K. Rowling
You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems... -- Christopher Moore
You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet. -- Heather Langenkamp
We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong. -- Simon Sinek
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors. -- Ben Kingsley
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems. -- David Eagleman
Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.... -- Lawrence Halprin
We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states. -- lecrae
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. -- Randy Harrison
It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy. -- Edward Glaeser
Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much. -- Sharlto Copley
I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over. -- Johnny Carson
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice. -- Cornel West
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. -- Ryan Reynolds
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. -- Jessie Mueller
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy. -- J. K. Rowling
If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura. -- Ian Svenonius
The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to "make the invisible visible -- Hillman Curtis
What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you -- Barack Obama
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will. -- Adam Haslett
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. -- Roger Ebert
I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could. -- Steve Purdy
I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. -- Paul Haggis
I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you. -- K. D. Lang
Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office]. -- John Krasinski
It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses. -- Gloria Steinem
If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was. -- Shirley Hufstedler
We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story. -- Danny Boyle
I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it. -- Julian McMahon
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. -- Jacki Weaver
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our best hope for the future [...] lies 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. -- Paul Bloom

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