Paul Bloom Quotes

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

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

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

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

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

I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else's shoes.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

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

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

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.