#empathy

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ↗

— Brené Brown

#listening #shame #speaking #courage

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. ↗

— Winston Graham

#been #buy #computer #considerable #creative

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human experience, we risk becoming recruited to their welfare.' I allow my empathy to be engaged, and once it is - because my feelings help teach me what my values are - I'm on the path for which there is no return. I am inexorably an advocate when I allow my empathy to be engaged. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#inspirational #experience

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. ↗

— Jen Knox

#artist #empathy #life #philosophy #truth

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#beautiful thing #communicative #empathy #film #greatest

None of us can choose where we shall love... ↗

— Susan Kay

#love #opera #passion #phantom #sympathy

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated. ↗

— John Shirley

#cursed #empathy #i #nature #opinionated

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#fiction #on-fiction #art

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#conflict #empathy #erich-fromm #humility #love