Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Self
Important
Developing
Communication
Compassion
Use
May
More quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
Marshall B. Rosenberg
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Needs are the expression of life through us.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
We give empathy to others for our own benefit.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
Marshall B. Rosenberg