Chris Sacca Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

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.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.

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.

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

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

Individuating and taking someone else's perspective can be very powerful.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Compassion takes imagination.