Christian Bale Quotes

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

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.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

There's a power in empathy.

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

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

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably 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?

I just try to put myself in the minds of all the characters.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

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

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

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.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

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

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

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.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.