Allison Williams Quotes

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.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

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 would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

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

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

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.

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.

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.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

You have to put yourself in people's shoes in certain situations because you don't know what people really think or what they're really going through.

I think the ability to empathize with another person's experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

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

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?

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