L.A. Rosenberg Quotes

We are the transition from one education to the other.

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

God has not given us Bible prophecy to Scare us but to Prepare us.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).

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

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

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.

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.

Never do anything that isn't play.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

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.

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.

Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

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.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

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.

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

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.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way