Rosenberg Quotes

#1. Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#2. The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#3. Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#4. When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#5. Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#8. We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel's ever introduced as a lead. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#10. 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. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way? - Author: Sandra Cisneros

#13. I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#14. Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#15. A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#16. Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache. - Author: Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

#17. Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#18. NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#19. What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. It's not for us to choose our times, Jacob. But we must be ready when they come. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#21. Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less. - Author: Joel Rosenberg

#22. Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. - Author: Charles E. Rosenberg

#24. I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them - as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind. - Author: Liz Rosenberg

#25. We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#26. Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#27. The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#28. The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now. - Author: Larry Rosenberg

#29. The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#30. Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#31. For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#32. If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#33. From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations. - Author: Alfred Rosenberg

#34. Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#35. NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#36. It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#37. Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself! - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#38. 2 days to the U.N. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#39. 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. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#40. In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#41. I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. - Author: Isaac Rosenberg

#42. Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist. - Author: L.A. Rosenberg

#43. Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything. - Author: William Rosenberg

#44. With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#45. Every time I mess up is a chance to practice. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#46. There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#47. Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention. - Author: Liz Rosenberg

#48. An artist is a person who has invented an artist. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#49. Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#50. Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which ... can be dispensed with. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#51. Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#52. Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#53. Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#54. Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good. - Author: Larry Rosenberg

#55. Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#56. TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#57. One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time. - Author: Alan Rosenberg

#58. Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it. - Author: Aaron Rosenberg

#59. The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#60. Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#61. We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#62. Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#63. When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#64. The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. - Author: Alfred Rosenberg

#65. I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough. - Author: Isaac Rosenberg

#66. What bores the listener bores the speaker too. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#67. That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies. - Author: Evan Daugherty

#68. You cannot win today's ballgame with yesterday's home runs. - Author: David S. Rosenberg

#69. Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. - Author: Isaac Rosenberg

#70. Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#71. You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me." - Author: Sandra Cisneros

#72. When we judge others we contribute to violence. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#73. Greatness in art is always a by-product. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#74. We are the transition from one education to the other. - Author: Alfred Rosenberg

#75. We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#76. Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#77. When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#78. When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#79. Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book. - Author: Arun Manilal Gandhi

#80. Yet what choice did he have? Nothing about this war was fair. Nothing about being Jewish was fair, The only question that counted was whether he wanted to live or not, and he did. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#81. Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#82. What type of car do I get?" David asked.
"As we like to say in the Middle East," Zalinsky said, "We'll blow up that bridge when we get to it. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#83. When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#84. Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#85. Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#86. Miscellaneous is always the largest category. - Author: Joel Rosenberg

#87. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#88. I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#89. If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#90. The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#91. Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#92. The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#93. All human actions are an attempt to meet needs. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#94. I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#95. I need a suit of armor and the courage to stand behind my convictions to fight for what I want. - Author: Ella Frank

#96. I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see 'Flashdance.' I mean, it's silly, but I walked out of that movie going 'what a feeling!' I walked out with confidence. - Author: Melissa Rosenberg

#97. We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#98. We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#99. They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life. - Author: Harold Rosenberg

#100. When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg