"The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing."

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Source : Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.261, Narcissus Publishing

Sam Vaknin

#Ideas Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I'm not a patient person.”
“What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!”
“There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private”
“If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.”
“Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.”
“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”
“From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.”
“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be doneâ€”that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.”

Source : Piers Anthony (2002). “Castle Roogna”, p.46, Del Rey

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