Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met. — 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
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do?… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears)… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
