How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
