Om Malik Quotes

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

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.

Connecting with people who are able to maintain a sense of humility is really useful.

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.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

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.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

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

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.