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Empathy

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Ansel Adams Photographer
Empathy

"Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events."

Attitude Photography Empathy
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Harper Lee Novelist
Empathy

"Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?"

Proud Empathy Tonight
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Martin Buber Philosopher
Empathy

"When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light."

Light Space Empathy
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Barack Obama Politician
Empathy

"We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained."

Goal Compassion Empathy
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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
Empathy

"I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at."

Looks Empathy Gaps
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Empathy

"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque."

Cities Joy Empathy
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Neil Gaiman Author
Empathy

"Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals."

People Self Empathy
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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Empathy

"I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated."

People Differences Empathy
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Pascal Bruckner Philosopher, Writer
Empathy

"You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive."

Feelings Compassion Empathy
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Empathy

"Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime."

Eye School Empathy
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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Empathy

"In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."

Knowing Communication Empathy
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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
Empathy

"When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy."

People Thinking Empathy
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