“It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.” SeemsFilmEmotionAudiencePositionEmpathyCinemaManipulationDominantSubjective Author:Peter Greenaway
“Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingWellsCharacterAbleVoiceEmotionRight NowEmpathyDeserveShoesLike MeSupposed To BeTragicMundanePlaywrightEloquentDon't Like Me Author:Tracy Letts
“Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.” FeelingsEmotionCompassionEmpathySorryOneselfRangeFeeling SorryCompassion And Empathy Author:Frederick Lenz
“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” IfsSelfMatterHandsAbleAbilityEmotionAwarenessEmotionalSmartEmpathySelf AwarenessIntelligenceManageEmotional IntelligenceDistressingNo Empathy Author:Daniel Goleman
“It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.” NeedsBelievePersonsDoeGivenEmotionEmpathyRespectAnd LoveOilRealmsCharacteristicsAdmirationHingesThose In NeedAdmiration And Respect Book:Advice from a Failure Source: Advice from a Failure
“Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty-he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.” HumansReasonFeelingsNightHumanityNextNaturalSleepLevelsEmotionClearProtectEmpathyConscienceDistanceGuiltCriticalPartnersCeaseCrueltyReason WhyHuman EmotionsAbusersObjectificationClear Conscience Author:Lundy Bancroft
“empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.” HumansEmotionComfortableEmpathyHuman Emotions Author:Frances Gray Patton
“There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.” EmotionEmpathyRevolutionary Author:Gloria Steinem
“In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.” PeoplePowerfulEmotionLeaderClassMiddlePeriodsEmpathyEducatedRevolutionaryMiddle ClassCommunistVery PowerfulPowerful Emotions Author:Hamza Yusuf
“The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.” PersonsStillsFallPassionFeltEmotionViolenceMankindDegreesEmpathyConcernedSpectatorsSympatheticSufferers Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.” WorldFeelsEyeEmotionEmpathyInsightBridgesThrough The Eyes Author:Tim Brown