No Empathy Quotes

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

None of us can choose where we shall love.

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

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

Fiction is empathy technology.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

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

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

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.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.

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

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.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

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.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.