Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

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

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

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

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

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

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

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

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

Compassion takes imagination.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

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.