Vince Staples Quotes

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

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

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.