Quote

If people just asked: Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs? the conflict would be easy to resolve.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marshall B. Rosenberg
Would
Conflict
People
Resources
Meet
Asked
Sides
Easy
Done
Needs
Resolve

More quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Image
Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
NVC is a reminder to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
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.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.
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
Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We are designed for Giving
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
It's never what people do that makes us angry it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
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
The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
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