Needs Quotes - Page 30

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Wake Up, Use

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Healing, Important

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

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Criticism

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• Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Messages

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• Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving Up, Communication, Mean

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

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• All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Negative

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• Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Wake Up, Helping

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• In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Want, Culture

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• The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Spirituality, Social

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “The Heart of Social Change: How You Can Make a Difference in Your World”, p.10, PuddleDancer Press

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• If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Track, Tables

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, People

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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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• Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Helping

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Differences, Strategy

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• When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Block, Communication, Thinking

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Goal, Resolution

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• I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Motivation, Believe, Communication

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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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• The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Two, Numbers

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• There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Real, Communication, Two

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• Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Levels, Problem

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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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Self, People

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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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Patience, Discipline, People

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