E. G. Marshall Quotes

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

If you want to get attacked, have an opinion.

It's not enough to learn, one must become.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time.

The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they have will get more. Be grateful everyday.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Take action now, because tomorrow never comes.

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

The more you laugh, the healthier you are. You must laugh more!

Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

You will never see what you are capable of, although you must seek to.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom.

You don't need to do anything to be loved. Just be who you know you are. It's the only way to experience real love.

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.