Emma Goldman Quotes

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

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

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Compassion takes imagination.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

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 got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

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

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

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

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?

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

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

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.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.