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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

Anderson Cooper

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

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

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" 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

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

" As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs. "

" Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not. "

Dayananda Saraswati

" 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

" Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies. "

Sharon Lawrence

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others. "

" Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy. "

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