Emotional Understanding Quotes

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of a victim, I put myself in their position and imagine what would it be like if that happened to me.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

The moment you've convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

The first thing I do with any script is read it and try to visualize if I can play the character - if I can feel what the character's feeling.