"The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy."
― Anthony Storr
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Sympathy
― Anthony Storr
More From Anthony Storr
- "I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you."
- "If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears."
- "It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."
More In Sympathy
- "To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."― Ivan Turgenev
- "If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."― Oscar Wilde
- "I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they’d take sympathy on me."― Daniel Johns