Jillian Rose Reed Quotes

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

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

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

I'm very human.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.

When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'