"Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing."

-- Leslie Jamison

#Knowing Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“Simplicity is the key to success.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.”
“I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.”
“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.”
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.”
“Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.”
“When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.”

Source : Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (2010). “Dare to Forgive”, p.20, Health Communications, Inc.
“This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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