Natalie Imbruglia Quotes

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

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

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

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

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

The wise are wise only because they love.

A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

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 have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

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

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

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

Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

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

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.

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.