Nina Jacobson Quotes

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

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.

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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

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

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

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

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

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

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

I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Compassion takes imagination.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

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.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.