Quotes About Nonviolent Communication

#1. I highly recommend the approach Marshall Rosenberg details in Nonviolent Communication (2nd Edition 2008), which has essentially three parts: When X happens [described factually, not judgmentally], I feel Y [especially the deeper, softer emotions], because I need Z [fundamental needs and wants].

Rick Hanson

#2. Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

Robert Muller

#3. In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.

Vicki Robin

#4. Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Riane Eisler

#6. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

Joe Vitale

#7. The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate and inspiring message cuts right to the heart of successful communication.

Tony Robbins

#8. Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

Ron Rubin

#9. One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

Carlo Ratti

#10. Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. NO is always a YES to something else.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#13. I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.

Cher Lloyd

#14. The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#15. Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#16. God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

Lyman Abbott

#17. I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

Bill Wyman

#18. Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#19. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

Jack Gilbert

#20. We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#21. Never do anything that isn't play.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#22. Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security.

Dinsha Patel

#23. We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Rudolf Steiner

#24. Empathy before education.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#25. Your actions and values define you.

Fennel Hudson

#26. I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

John Cusack

#27. We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#28. Don't do anything that isn't play

Joseph Campbell

#29. Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#30. In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#31. In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Mary-Louise Parker

#32. This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

Lisa Kudrow

#33. Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#34. Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true ... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.

Cassidy Gifford

#35. Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

Kristin Hannah

#36. Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

Joseph Hertz

#37. Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#38. Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Emil Cioran

#39. The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.

Peter Boettke

#40. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

Debasish Mridha