Empathy Quotes

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

~ Danielle Ofri

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.

~ Danielle Ofri

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

~ Danielle Ofri

It can be rough going to maintain both composure and empathy in these situations, but a doctor's failure to do that is probably the number one reason why patients feel dissatisfied with their physicians and end up doctor-shopping endlessly.

~ Danielle Ofri

But while the patient does bear some responsibility, I believe that the onus falls more heavily on the doctor to be attuned to the factors--cultural, ethnic, or just personal style--that influence how patients present their symptoms.

~ Danielle Ofri

Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is a permanent state of flux.

~ Danielle Ofri

What these older physicians exhibited is termed clinical curiosity. They stroke to understand their patients in order to elucidate the underlying medical conditions. This thoroughness, patience, and dogged curiosity may have been ingrained in them because they trained at a time when they were no rapid CTs or MRIs. But even now, when these diagnostic tools are at their fingertips, these physicians maintain this approach to patients, one that serves to appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each patient and his or her illness.

~ Danielle Ofri

But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.

~ Danielle Ofri

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.

~ Danielle Ofri

It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant. They lecture. They scold. This incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.

~ Azar Nafisi

There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints.

~ Michelle Madow

The process of categorisation is as old as men, yet as old as man alone, for no other animal species categorises itself so neatly. Yet the ultimate, most vulnerable and weakest victim of categorisation is empathy. Categorisation is a process that destroys the very empathy that enlivens communities: the empathy that traditionally binds diverse communities together.

~ Joshua Krook

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Find an excellent quote about Stories with a Dramatic Arc by Deb Volberg Search for the yellow dress on Youtubetinyurl dot com / storywithdrama2014 tells the highlightsWhen we tell stories about a change in our life, we develop a neural coupling with our audience. the key is developing empathy by showing a change in our beliefs

~ Deb Volberg

less apathy,more empathy.

~ Scott Stabile

I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't sad because at least now, Brad doesn't have to get drunk or stoned to make love.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five... (it) is... a second by second, minute by minute service that [we] owe to everyone if [we] want to call [ourselves] a leader.

~ Simon Sinek

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, take beards.Sons, be your mothers.The future of the world now liesIn coral wombs behind our eyes.

~ Clive Barker

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. (Another empty room)

~ Erik Pevernagie

I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great, I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken.

~ Unknown

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The world needs them - the ones who absorb the emotions of others, which diminishes their pain and disquietude and the world also uses them as a repository for confessions, secrets, grudges and indignation. They will leave these uncommon and intuitive individuals feeling unburdened themselves while the unusual individual will be weighed down by having taken on those burdens in addition to their own. The world needs them but what they need is something as aberrant as themselves, and that is silence, stillness and rest.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

An officer put me in my place from the first moment.I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word--without a warning or explanation--moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I had an ear 2 confide inI would cry among my treasured friendsBut who do u know that stops that longto help another carry onThe world moves fast and it would rather pass u bythan 2 stop and c what makes u cry

~ Tupac Shakur

To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery.

~ Dan Wells

It is arrogant to pretend to understand everybody, and doing it in order to live with them, or love them-- well. If it depended on understanding, there would not be any communities, or relationships. Worse, if you spend your life waiting to be understood or, something more horrible, waiting for the others to be like you. Well, it is as useless, as always shouting the same word until it means nothing else.

~ Edward Wells Ii

He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.

~ J.d. Salinger

Digital is the age of empathy.

~ Pearl Zhu

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

~ Harper Lee

...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

~ Edith Wharton

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

~ Neal Stephenson

Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.

~ Les Carter

Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.

~ Tina J. Richardson

What do you want to say to me?’‘Nothing—just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about to practice virtue in order to find a man who loves it only to destroy it' [replied Mademoiselle Vesian.]‘That is it exactly; and believe me, everything in this life is much the same. We refer everything to ourselves, and each of us is a tyrant. That is why the best of mortals is he who is tolerant.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Ask yourself if you’re taking the time to see beyond the surface.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

the more different you and I are, the less we will be able to identify with each other, and the more difficult it will to understand each other. If we can't see ourselves in another person at all—if his beliefs and background and reactions and emotions conflict too radically with our own—we often just withdraw the assumption that he is like us in any important way. That kind of dehumanization generally leads nowhere good.

~ Kathryn Schulz

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.

~ Desmond Tutu

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli