Joe Gebbia Quotes

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

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.

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

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

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

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

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

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

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.