Learning Empathy Quotes

Empathy isn't about you, understanding another person isn't about you, feeling how another person feels isn't about you ... step outside of your own skin for a change. Respect another person because they are who they are; not because the other person is just like you. Your inability to understand, your inability to empathize, is not a fault on the part of the other person. It is in fact your own disability that you are choosing to live with. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. ~ Alice Miller

You are learning empathy, and what it feels like to be left out. This is going to make you want to be the kind of person who makes room for people who feel like outsiders, and it's going to serve you well. It's going to guide you toward people who love you for who you are, so hang in there. Trust me that things are moving in the right direction. ~ Sara Bareilles

Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong. ~ Mike Krieger

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.' ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Nabokov once answered a question he must have been tired of being asked: "My private tragedy, which cannot, indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural language." That something is called a tragedy, however, means it is no longer personal. One weeps out of private pain, but only when the audience swarms in to claim understanding and empathy do they call it tragedy. One's grief belongs to oneself; one's tragedy, to others. ~ Yiyun Li

I've learned to face my demons,
I'm just learning that not everyone can handle them. ~ Samantha King

The process of applying Mindfulness Burnout Prevention (MBP) in the workplace or any environment has a much more far-reaching effect than simply accessing equanimity throughout the vicissitudes of life. Continuous learning helps us to stay youthful, sharpen our mental faculties and wire new neural connections in our brain (making us better equipped to accomplish); it is also a sign of humility. ~ Christopher Dines

The great secretary of nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon. ~ Izaak Walton

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework ... procrastinating and negotiation. ~ Bill Watterson

A passion for learning ... isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing. ~ Deborah Meier

I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Holy Spirit of God loves to make sure that everything is all about Jesus Christ. On that basis, I will say this categorically and emphatically, and only just barely resist the temptation to say it twice: Show me a person obsessed with the Holy Spirit and His gifts (real or imagined), and I will show you a person not filled with the Holy Spirit. Show me a person focused on the person and work of Jesus Christ - never tiring of learning about Him, thinking about Him, boasting of Him, speaking about and for and to Him, thrilled and entranced with His perfections and beauty, finding ways to serve and exalt Him, tirelessly exploring ways to spend and be spent for Him, growing in character to be more and more like Him - and I will show you a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit. ~ Dan Phillips

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

He was doing journalism in order to eat, which is a very good way of learning journalism. Probably the only real way, come to think of it. ~ Terry Pratchett

was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it. ~ Peter Enns

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. ~ Hugh Kingsmill

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement. ~ Rand Olson

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ] ~ Augusto Boal

The tulips are too excitable; it is winter here
Look at how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed in
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands
I am nobody, I have nothing to do with explosions
I have given my name and my dayclothes to the nurses, and my history to the anesthetist, and my body to the surgeons ~ Sylvia Plath

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. ~ Burt Rutan

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior. ~ Lisa Ling

When your Knowledge is linked together it's called Experience. ~ Udayveer Singh

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements. ~ Vanessa Carlton

I relax while I work. It's really weird but my job doesn't feel like work at all. That's why I try to do as much as possible. When I'm on the set, learning lines and playing around, I'm relaxed. It's so amazing. ~ Terry Crews

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure. ~ Reg Revans

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

The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning. ~ Deyth Banger

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. ~ Charlie Munger

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. ~ Albert Einstein

Role-playing situations work well for many parents. After deprivation or prenatal exposure to substance, many children have verbal instruction as their weakest learning area, but many have role playing as their strongest. ~ Deborah D. Gray

It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable. ~ Ry Russo-Young

Go wide, explore and learn new things. Something will surely have a kick for you ~ Mustafa Saifuddin

Functional, moderate guilt," writes Kochanska, "may promote future altruism, personal responsibility, adaptive behavior in school, and harmonious, competent, and prosocial relationships with parents, teachers, and friends." This is an especially important set of attributes at a time when a 2010 University of Michigan study shows that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago, with much of the drop having occurred since 2000. (The study's authors speculate that the decline in empathy is related to the prevalence of social media, reality TV, and "hyper-competitiveness.") Of ~ Susan Cain

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone. ~ Anthony Marais

My words itch at your ears till you understand them ~ Walt Whitman

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning. ~ Tom Spanbauer

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage. ~ Ellen Hollman

Where there is a lesson to be learned there is always an opportunity of change to be gained. Change comes by learning, help us Lord Jesus to learn something from every lesson. ~ Euginia Herlihy

From you I can learn things that nobody knows. ~ Orson Scott Card

When my brother, ... , was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: 'Just my luck!' he would say. 'What a pity she was not born a man!' But then I gradually realized that people were saying 'It's bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,' and since I have avoided writing the simplest character. ~ Murasaki Shikibu

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. ~ Jonathan Kozol