DJ Paul Quotes

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.

Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.

What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

I think Americans are always going to care more about Americans than about Mexicans.

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

My younger son told me nobody uses email anymore. I'm this old fogie with my email. I don't know what I'm supposed to communicate with now - SnapChat?

I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

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.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

The forests have taught man liberty.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.

We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

We should have a very limited federal government.

Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.