Quotes about Empathy

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

En otras palabras: no hay que discutir con el cliente o con el cónyuge o con el adversario. No le diga que se equivoca, no lo haga enojar; utilice un poco de tacto, de diplomacia.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

To cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, remember that Rule 2 is: Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

To win friends and influence others in today's world takes less than clever rhetoric. It takes the understated eloquence of grace and self-deprecation.

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

get the other person's point of view and see things from his or her angle, as well as from our own.

Kaiser into a staunch friend, imagine what humility and praise can do for you and me in our daily

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

The law is this: Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." As I have already pointed out, it is this urge that differentiates us from the animals. It is this urge that has been responsible for civilization itself.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.