Tim Minchin Quotes

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

We came up with three core touchy feely words.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Emotional intelligence is a very important skill set, not just to be happier but also to succeed professionally.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."