Nonviolent Communication Quotes - Page 10

• 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, Needs

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• 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

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• 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

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• We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Self, Hatred

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• Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Needs

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• Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Helping, Conflict

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• Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Rewards, Be Good

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• Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Offering, Advice

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• When we judge others we contribute to violence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Judging, Violence

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• Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Zero, Communication, People

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• Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  Simone Weil

  Nursing, Compassion, Listening

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Abhorrent, Needs

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• People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, People

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• Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Being Ignored

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• Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Needs

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• People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Believe, Communication

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• We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Responsible

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Hate, Communication, Blessing

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Tactics, Motivated

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• Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Blame

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• 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

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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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• Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self Esteem, Communication, Punishment

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Communication, Punishment

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