Communication Quotes - Page 40

• Never do anything that isn't play.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Play, Nonviolent Communication

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.24, PuddleDancer Press

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• Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Nonviolent Communication

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• The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Art, Play, Imagination

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Needs, Wake Up, Use

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• Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Practice, Chance, Mess

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• Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Mean, Men, Telephones

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Judging People, Violence, Classifying

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• In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing that are focused on people, rather than machinery.

  Terry Winograd

  Years, Space, People

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• When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Killing, Superficial

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• Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

  Robert Plant

  Lonely, Mean, Blue

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• Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.

  Philip Kotler

  Views, Marketing, Way

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• Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Heard

  Frances Hesselbein (2013). “More Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.65, John Wiley & Sons

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• The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Past, Nonviolent Communication, Heal

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.6, PuddleDancer Press

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• Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Retribution, Nonviolent Communication, Plans

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• Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self, Judgment, Prophecy

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• Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Enemy, Conflict, Reason

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• Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

  Barnett Newman

  Dream, Men, Expression

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Teamwork, Views, Independence

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2005). “Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.17, Crown Business

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• Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Healing, Important, Needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.36, PuddleDancer Press

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• A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Opportunity, Messages, Difficult

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• Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Expression, Criticism, Needs

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• We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

  Robert McKee

  Thinking, Talking, Mad

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• We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

  Henry Cuellar

  Law, Agency, Lines

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• It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below dangerous rises in temperature. I am pleased that this important new study shows how information and communication technology can play an essential role in saving energy. Now we need more and effective government policies that reward such action and penalize delayed responses.

  Christiana Figueres

  Technology, Government, Play

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• When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Punishment, Focus, Consequence

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