Juliette Binoche Quotes

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

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.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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

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

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

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.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

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

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

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

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.