Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
Claire Danes
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Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
Antonya Nelson
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This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice Walker
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Clevelanders care about underdogs, partly because we are, partly because we have empathy, and we're - we have faith in our God and faith in humanity, and that makes us support the underdog.
Sherrod Brown
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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.
Richard Eyre
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I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.
Martin McDonagh
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What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.
Liam Cunningham
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When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.
James Wan
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All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
Gloria Steinem
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Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.
Erin Gruwell
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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
Elizabeth Berg
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I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.
David Cohen
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We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Bill Drayton
EmpathyTeachLiteracy
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen
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When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Terri Apter
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I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.
Jesmyn Ward
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You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
Paul Haggis
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Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.
Andy Dunn
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I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
Nell Scovell
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The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
Mehmet Oz
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
Harry Browne
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I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
Matt McGorry
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With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
Dash Mihok
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