Daniel H. Pink Quotes

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

We could be much more empathic as a society.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

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

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.