E. G. Marshall Quotes

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

Discover your strengths and then hone them and be who you are meant to be.

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.