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And as such, we need to be empathetic and understanding. -- Linda D. Thompson
I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.' -- Michael Kors
I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic. -- Win Butler
I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people. -- Bill Burr
You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy. -- Thomas Sowell
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act. -- Kehinde Wiley
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them. -- Lily Tomlin
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them. -- Lily Tomlin
The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be. -- Frans de Waal
Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money. -- Lynsey Addario
Make intercessory prayer a priority in your life and the life of your family. It will cause you to be more empathetic, less self-obsessed, and increasingly more like Christ. -- Monica Johnson
When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why. -- Gary Bauer
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. -- Bono
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality. -- Scott Stossel
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways. -- Bono
We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are. -- Simon Winchester
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy. -- Gary Bauer
I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic. -- Julianne Moore
Hillary Clinton's not seen as empathetic and compassionate. -- Kellyanne Conway
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart. -- Gary Chapman
I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life. -- Paul Dano
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic. -- Biz Stone
Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings. -- Toni Servillo
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind. -- Glenn Beck
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. -- Lindsay Duncan
I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable. -- Lily Tomlin
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me. -- Kristen Bell
I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years. -- Stephen Lang
What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power. -- Bill Drayton
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. -- Ann Patchett
Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches. -- John Gerzema
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people. -- John Warnock
There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis. -- Neill Blomkamp
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. -- Dean Koontz
Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life. -- Alexandra Stoddard
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. -- John Updike
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn. -- Jim Broadbent
When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why. -- Gary Bauer
We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone. -- Jamake Highwater
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced. -- Jim Shepard
The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront. -- Ryan Hurst
I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times. -- Andy Serkis
I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up. -- Kathy Bates
My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego." -- Steve Lillywhite
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. -- Jerry Leiber

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