"Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention."

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Daniel Goleman

#Simple Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.”
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
“Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.”
“The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.”
“Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.”
“We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.”
“Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.78, Vintage Canada
“Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the idea that you're going to communicate something you've learned and if you do it really well, they'll approve. If you go out in an approval process, you will be so nervous and so preoccupied you'll never get to the heart of what it is you want to make music with.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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