Top 1200 Lack Of Empathy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

It was lack of good scripts and lack of time for daily serials, for which I consciously stayed away from TV.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world. I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems.

I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.

I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.

You cannot have the financial system crippled because of lack of decision making and lack of quality people.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

It's sad that many don't realise the need for consent in relationships, and this can be attributed to lack of education, male chauvinism and lack of open mindedness.

My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face - people don't lack goals, passion, grit, or drive - they lack leadership!

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to go. Whenever I talk about this, I have to begin in the most boring of all possible ways: by defining my terms. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human beings that can feed all of our souls. We have our differences, but we're all so similar in our humanness. So those stories about young girls overcoming meant a lot to me and gave me hope.

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.

What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.