Morgan Spurlock Quotes

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

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.

I never had to put myself in somebody else'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 think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.