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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
World
Example
Power
Appropriate
Respects
Magnanimity
Empathy
Itself
Intelligent
America
Size
Which
Act
Many
Many Respects
Bring
It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.
John Cornyn
Hurt
Some
Empathy
Show
Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.
Justin Simien
Others
Ourselves
Empathy
Reveal
Stories
Us
Teach
Skins
'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
Karl Rove
Constitution
Word
Judiciary
Whatever
Liberal
Latest
Backlash
Would
Clay
Generate
Empathy
Voter
Policy
Pass
Courts
Malleable
Branch
Expansive
Did
Legislative
Legislative Branch
Represents
Want
Form
Which
Justices
Create
Molded
View
Activism
Code
Treating
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
Kavita Ramdas
People
Compassion
Face
Help Others
Others
Circumstances
Give
Percentage
Tend
Empathy
Perhaps
Know
Greater
Because
Same
Might
Lower
Show
Help
Incomes
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Malorie Blackman
Reading
Shoes
Else
Someone
Empathy
Exercise
Walking
While
I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
Mark Knopfler
Hope
Time
You
Heart
World
Other
Changes
Way
Those
Perceive
More
Gives
Empathy
Know
Time Changes
Just
Whether
Your
Ever
Things
Necessarily
I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic.
Michael Buble
Love
Kindness
Humor
Think
Caring
Those
Kind
Empathy
Gestures
Romantic
Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.
Nicholas Kristof
Home
People
Sometimes
Too
Sign
Weakness
Criticize
Wealthy
Runs
Born
Perceive
Rather
Civilization
Empathy
Failing
Hit
Than
Often
Poor
Home Runs
Base
Third
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.
Paul Bloom
Best
Smart
Enough
Our
Some
Rely
Features
Parochial
Empathy
Narrow-Minded
Often
Unfortunate
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
Siri Hustvedt
Character
Sympathy
Penetrate
Characters
Easy
Empathy
Make
Off
Very
Lack
Repugnant
Cut
Hard
Who
Damaged
True contentment comes with empathy.
Tim Finn
Contentment
Empathy
True
Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
Aaron Lazar
Time
Me
Women
Stress
Men
Long
Patient
Kind
More
Inspiring
Long Periods
Tougher
Empathy
Also
Periods
Deal
Women Are
Than
Blows
Just
Capacity
Much
Away
Awe
Awe-Inspiring
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
Abigail Disney
Love
Good
People
Sense
Telling
Only
Empathy
Know
Also
Greater
Greater Good
Achieved
Them
Filling
Need
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex Flinn
Time
Great
Me
Great Deal
Believe
Ability
See
Having
Writer
Empathy
Well
Another
Deal
Anyone
Hard
Viewpoint
Hard Time
Served
It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.
Alex Wolff
You
School
Every
Type
High
City
High School
Empathy
New
Callous
Person
Get
York
Going
New York
Interesting
'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
Alexandra Kleeman
You
Yourself
Space
Word
Everyone
Insert
Blank
Points
Empathy
Also
Refer
Hand
Person
Themselves
Uses
Specific
Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.
Alia Shawkat
Time
Entertainment
Living
Everyone
Having
Empathy
Attention
Judging
Insulting
Always
Grab
Trying
Where
Conversations
Them
Growing
Why
Millennials
Profiles
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
Alison Gopnik
Great
You
Will
Drop
Pen
Give
Empathy
Study
Altruism
Climb
Go
Bunch
Children
Room
Capacity
Youngest
Across
Even
Shows
Recent
If I see someone break down in tears, I don't necessarily feel empathy for them in those moments unless it's really warranted. I feel like a tear needs to be warranted in a movie; it needs to be earned.
Andrew Haigh
Needs
Tears
Down
Earned
Unless
Those
See
Someone
Empathy
Feel
Like
Movie
Break
Them
Really
Moments
Tear
Necessarily
Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
Andrew Sean Greer
Writing
Empathy
Fiction
Act
Imaginative
What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
Andy Dunn
Animal
Animals
Other
Our
Possible
Exception
Empathetic
Empathy
Most
Planet
Separates
Humans
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
Angela Duckworth
Character
You
Intelligence
Odds
Own
Think
Punishments
Seems
My Own
Daughters
Through
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
Develop
Developing
Empathy
Idea
Know
Itself
Very
Curiosity
Get
Going
Just
Rewards
Want
Grit
Things
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
Anthony Marra
Family
Language
Car
Statement
Hiding
Miraculously
Indifference
Collision
Impending
Empathy
Read
Came
Line
Behind
Refusal
Crash
Story
While
Spared
Warn
Act
Help
Last
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.
Anthony Marra
Life
Daily
Experience
Sense
Imagination
Both
Empathy
Beyond
Most
Reader
Narrow
Limits
Author
Intense
Novel
Daily Life
Enlargement
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
Bat for Lashes
Work
People
Free
Prison
Duty
Trapped
Other
Back
Liberated
Way
Through
Uncomfortable
Empathy
Self-Consciousness
Feel
Perhaps
Make
Doing
Want
Held
Who
Why
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