Quotes about Empathy

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.

PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person.

SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2 Smile. PRINCIPLE 3 Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person's interests. PRINCIPLE 6 Make the other person feel important—and do it sincerely.

most people will react favorably to your proposals if they feel that you admire them for being honest, unselfish, and fair.

Even if we can't love our enemies, let's at least love ourselves. Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health and our looks. As Shakespeare put it: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

Schwab says that he was paid this salary largely because of his ability to deal with people.