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Marshall B. Rosenberg

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We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
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I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.
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There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.
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You're going to lose it when you follow the world feel with the words because I think. Any time you are thinking, your chance of getting what you need is greatly decreased, especially when you follow the word think with the word you. I predict you won't only not get heard, but I predict a defensive aggressive reaction.
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We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
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In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.
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Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.
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Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.
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The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.
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Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.
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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.
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In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
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We give empathy to others for our own benefit.
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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
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Classifying and judging people promotes violence.
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NO is always a YES to something else.
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Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.
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Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.
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