"The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do."
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"There's something in everyone only they know."
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"Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection."
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"I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious."
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"There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives."
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"Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds."
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"Leadership is about empathy."
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"Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach."
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"If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels."
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"Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color."
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"Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously."
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"Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy."
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"Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it."
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"If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists."
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"If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles."
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"Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship."
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"Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance."
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"Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement."
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"Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself."
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"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth."
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