E. G. Marshall Quotes

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Talking about spirituality is like talking about new love - it always sounds kooky to those who aren't experiencing it.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

Needs are the expression of life through us.

Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.

Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

A respectful understanding of another's experience.

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.

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

My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy that serves me to meet these needs.

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.

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.