Joel Osteen Quotes

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

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

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

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.

I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do.

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

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.

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.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

I don't think I can see the world through other people's eyes, but I can capture an attitude or a look that makes others think I can. I have an appreciation for why people choose to look the way they do. But I can't know what they experience.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.