It Is Only After One Is In Trouble That One Realizes How Little Sympathy And Kindness There Are In The World.
I Think That's Almost What It Is Sometimes If You Sum Up What Acting Is. It's Just The Ultimate Expression Of Empathy.
Our Leaders Are Cruel Because Only Those Willing To Be Inordinately Cruel And Remorseless Can Hold Positions Of Leadership In The Foreign Policy Establishment. People Capable Of Expressing A Full Human Measure Of Compassion And Empathy Toward Faraway Powerless Strangers Do Not Become President Of The United States, Or Vice President, Or Secretary Of State, Or National Security Adviser Or Secretary Of The Treasury. Nor Do They Want To.
I Learnt Pity, Sympathy, And What It Was Like To Be At The Other End Of The Stick. Such Lessons Can't Be Learnt In Lecture Halls.
In Science, A Path That Turns Out To Be A Dead End Is Very Useful Because You Don't Devote Resources To Focusing On That; You Go Elsewheres.
To A Contrarian Like Me, Constant Advice Not To Do Something Almost Always Starts Me Quickly Down The Risky, Unpopular Path.
In Business, When You Fail At Something, When Something Doesn't Work, You Say Okay, We've Learned That That's Not A Path To Go Down.
Criticism In The Universities, I'll Have To Admit, Has Entered A Phase Where I Am Totally Out Of Sympathy With 95% Of What Goes On. It's Stalinism Without Stalin.
Can I See Another's Woe, And Not Be In Sorrow Too? Can I See Another's Grief, And Not Seek For Kind Relief?
