Stewart Butterfield Quotes

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.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

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

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

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.

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 think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

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.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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.'

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.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

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.

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.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

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