E. G. Marshall Quotes

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

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.

The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.

We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

I've always been curious in why different people believe the things they do and do the things they do - in the different ways that people live.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.

Balancing the complex point of view in the edit room was mostly a matter of challenging ourselves to keep digging deeper.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But I felt like time was running out for me if I wanted to do it.

I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

If Russell Wilson wins this game... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.

The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

The story begins only when the book closes.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

Human perception is literally incarnation.