Bethany Hamilton Quotes

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

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.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

Love is something that we need to learn.

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

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding human being.

I don't waste time despising people.

I'm a person who tries to be compassionate, caring, and warm to every single person I meet.