Trevante Rhodes Quotes

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

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

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

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.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

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 love, I love human beings, studying them.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.