Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Anger, Expression

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• Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

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  Inspirational, People, Giving

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.31, PuddleDancer Press

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• 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.

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  Communication, Games, Play

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• Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

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  Respect, Strong, Offering

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• Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Lying, Empathy, Opinion

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• 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.

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  Honesty, Communication, Order

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

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  Feelings, Labels, Demand

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• When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

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  Compassion, Judging, Focus

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• Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

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  Communication, Survival, Facts

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• 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

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

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  Communication, Enemy, Needs

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

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  Stupid, Communication, Brilliant

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

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  Pain, Communication, People

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• Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.

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  Children, Love You, Punishment

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• Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Criticism

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

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• NO is always a YES to something else.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Nonviolent Communication

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• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

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  Communication, Compassion, People

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• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Encouragement, Pain, Believe

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Rewards, Nonviolent Communication

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• When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

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  Communication, Giving, Empathy

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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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• What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

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  Communication, Feelings, May

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• Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

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  Communication, Differences, Needs

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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.

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  Communication, Thinking, Being Ignored

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