Nonviolent Communication Quotes - Page 5

• Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suicidal, Thinking

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• Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Empathy, Levels

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• At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Struggle, Communication, Roots

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Happiness, Communication, Grieving

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• 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

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Practice, Chance

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• People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• 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

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Killing

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• Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Sweet, Pain, Communication

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• Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

  Lucy Liu

  Communication, Joy, Feelings

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• Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Purpose

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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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  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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• I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Running, Communication, Thinking

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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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  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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• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

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

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• My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy that serves me to meet these needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Fun, Communication, Safety

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• Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Compassion

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• Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

  Voltaire

  Hate, Men, Objectivity

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• NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Regret, Communication, Self

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• Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Intellectual, Criticism

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Keys, Organization

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

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• We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Real, Educational

  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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• The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Communication, Warrior, Way

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Retribution, Plans

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