Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes - Page 6

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• Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.

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  Purpose, Use, Disconnected

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• Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

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  Communication, Needs, Wake Up

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• We are designed for Giving

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  Motivation, Giving, Protection

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• Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?

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  Exercise, Punishment, Two

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• This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

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  Communication, People, Demand

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• I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears) With this technology, it will be impossible for you to hear criticisms, harsh remarks, or insults. All you can hear is what all people are ever saying, "please" and "thank you". What used to sound like criticism, judgment, or blame, you will see, are really tragic, suicidal expressions of "please".

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  Communication, Suicidal, Technology

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• My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

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  Communication, Goal, World

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.23, PuddleDancer Press

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• Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

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  Communication, Empathy, Listening

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• Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

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  Communication, Thinking, People

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• Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.

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  Teacher, Believe, Communication

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

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  Empathy, Resources, Harder

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• NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

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  Communication, Skills, Desire

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• Needs are never conflicting. When we say that, we are only saying that at the moment we aren't seeing how both needs can be met. That leaves an opening. When you think in the way I'm suggesting, you'll often find a way to get most needs met simultaneously.

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  Communication, Thinking, Needs

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• Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

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  Children, Empathy, Creative

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.11, PuddleDancer Press

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• When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.

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  Communication, Self, People

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• When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

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  Children, Communication, Track

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• To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

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  Empathy, Feelings, Needs

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• In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Communication

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• When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.

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  Communication, People, Feelings

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• I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.

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  Communication, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  Children, Communication, Kids

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• When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

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  Communication, Needs, Being Me

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• Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

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  Block, Empathy, Understanding

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• If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If you see the action as their need being expressed, then the message is within them, not you. Any interpretation you put onto another person's message (such as passive-aggressive, withholding, etc.), you will pay for because of how you took it.

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  Communication, Cutting, Suffering

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• Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

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  Light, Shining, Consciousness

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