Dylan Sprouse Quotes

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

The ability to understand the people you’re dealing with is practical. Leading with respect and curiosity is practical. ... At the center of every healthy family, organization, and nation is a core humanistic skill: the capacity to see others deeply, to understand them, and to make them feel seen, heard, and understood.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

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

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

It is challenging when you are dealing with people's emotions.

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.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

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.'

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

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.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.