putting oneself in someone else's shoes Quotes

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Feel for others - in your pocket

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

People have no idea what it's like to be that person in the arena. I know, no offense, but a lot of people on television, talking heads and analysts and consultants and strategists and they all have their opinions and they tell what a candidate ought to do, what he should have done, what he could have done. But they've never been in at arena.

Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose.

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.

Examine other points of view as if they were your own.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

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