Joe Wright Quotes

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.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

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

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

It is a funny thing how hard it is to see the other fellow's point of view.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

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.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

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

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.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.