Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes About Communication

Quotes about: Communication

• Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Anger, Expression

• If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. You'll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody's telling you what's wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn't getting met. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear the analysis.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

• The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Honesty, Communication, Order

• When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Happiness, Communication, Grieving

• Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Games, Play

• The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, May, Behavior

• We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Nonviolent Communication

• Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Judging, Done

• Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, Punishment

• Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Punishment, Roots

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.12, PuddleDancer Press

• While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Hurt, Pain, Communication

• To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Believe, Communication, Practice

• Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self Esteem, Communication, Punishment

• Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, Waiting

• When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Enemy, Needs

• How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Looks, Matter

• You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Stupid, Communication, Brilliant

• Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Winning, Long

• Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Tactics, Motivated

• Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Hate, Communication, Blessing

• People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Distance, Communication, People

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully”, p.9, PuddleDancer Press

• Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Choices, Use

• Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Blame

• Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Nonviolent Communication

• You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Kids

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