Needs Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg · Page 2

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable,…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg