Anne Hathaway Quotes

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

I've always been able to put things in perspective.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.