Joey Soloway Quotes

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

I'm very human.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.