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Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.

Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.
– Leslie Jamison

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  1. I didn’t enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy. – Leslie Jamison
  2. Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough. – Leslie Jamison
  3. This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison
  4. Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. – Leslie Jamison
  5. All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers. – Pearl Zhu
  6. To get answers, ask questions; but to get good answers, ask good questions. – Israelmore Ayivor
  7. It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling. – Leslie Jamison
  8. Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. So often we focus on finding answers to life’s mysteries…when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them. – Dana Gore
  10. Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain! – Archibald Marwizi
  11. For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new. – Chris Murray
  12. Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions. – Josh Ross
  13. Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers. – J Bartell
  14. Pain without cause is a pain we can’t trust. We assume it’s been chosen or fabricated. – Leslie Jamison
  15. We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them. – Leslie Jamison
  16. Freedom from one man is just another one. – Leslie Jamison
  17. We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. – Leslie Jamison
  18. Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight. – Leslie Jamison
  19. facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. – Leslie Jamison
  20. Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. – Leslie Jamison
  21. There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  22. Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask. – Mensah Oteh
  23. Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. – Stephanie Mbida
  24. Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes. – Michael Hyatt
  25. I’ve never listened to music lying down. Listening’s reading if you close your eyes.Music’s a wood you walk through. – David Mitchell
  26. Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday? – Leslie Ludy
  27. empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. – Simon BaronCohen
  28. Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it’s first and foremost listening to God. – Leslie Ludy
  29. It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  30. Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy. – Pearl Zhu
  31. Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you’ll never have all of them. And that’s okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward. – Michael Holbrook
  32. Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety. – Joseph Joubert
  33. The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible. – Jorge Luis Borges
  34. No harm in listening. Alexei’s a child, not a wizard. We don’t lose control of our brains by listening. – Katherine Rundell
  35. Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn’t waste of time. It’s how somebody becomes wise! – Deyth Banger
  36. Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first. – Michele Jennae
  37. Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. – Fred Rogers
  38. Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. – Mother Teresa
  39. Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders. – Billy Graham
  40. That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson

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