Aimee Bender Quotes

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

We could be much more empathic as a society.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

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.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.