Graham Potter 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.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.

The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.

I try to speak from a place of understanding and most times I'm speaking from a place of experience.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.

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.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

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.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.