Robert Byrne Quotes

I would like to see someone walk a mile in my shoes for five minutes.

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins

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

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

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

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

It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

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

Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

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

The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

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.

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

Walk a day in my shoes and you'd be irritable too.

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.