Ex Communication Quotes

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.

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

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

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

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.

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

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

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

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

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

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.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

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.

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.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

I continuously strive to touch lives.

Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

The internet must be used to maximise open communication and we should encourage the expansion of its use.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

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

All communication must lead to change

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

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

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

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.

One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

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

FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.