Ben Horowitz Quotes

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

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

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes.

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

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get inside the mind of somebody else.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

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

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

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.