"Empathy comes from being empathized with."

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Source : Stanley I Greenspan, Stanley Greenspan (2007). “Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life”, p.33, Da Capo Press

Stanley Greenspan

#Empathy Quotes

“On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.”
“New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else”
“Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives”
“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 09, 2010
“I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.”
“Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully”
“What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.”
“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”

Source : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”

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