I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy for those characters, feeling for those characters, embarking on this adventure.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
Empathy is really important. . Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
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.
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.