Jeff Fisher Quotes

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

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

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

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

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

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.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

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

I'm interested in roles that are human, that have some sort of empathic quality.

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.

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.