Story Musgrave Quotes

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

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 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.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Other species help children develop empathy.

I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

Because of my personality, I'm able to connect with kids on a personal level.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.