Quote

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marshall B. Rosenberg
Others
Give
Giving
Empathy
Benefit
Communication
Benefits

More quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Image
Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We need empathy to give empathy.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
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
Image
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
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
Image
When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
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
Image
As soon as you say, are you feeling X because I ... Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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 needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.
Marshall B. Rosenberg