“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.” NeedsFeelsPainLife IsAbilityLaughingHumourCommunicationAnxietyLaughterGainsDistanceReliefAbsurdityHierarchyLaugh At LifeLove And Communication Author:Sara Davidson
“Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.” WellsHandsMightPainSoundPleasureResultsResponsibilityCommunicationScientistChiefsTherapyInjuryClapping Book:The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life Source: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
“Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.” PainClearCommunicationRequestNonviolent CommunicationJackals Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“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.” PersonsFeelingsPainCausesCommunicationEducateNonviolent CommunicationJackals Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“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.” KnowsPainWaitingEnjoyKnow HowCommunicationIntimacyNonviolent CommunicationJackals Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.” PeopleIfsTryingMatterFeelingsPainCommunicationEarsNonviolent CommunicationGiraffeJackals Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.” NeedsPersonsFeelingsPainCommunicationNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“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.” ThinkingNeedsPainSufferingSweetCommunicationPainfulInterpretationFulfilledNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.” PeopleLongHappensPainUsedCommunicationTrainingEvidenceDoctorsThings HappenTraditionalUsed To BeTherapyOutcomesInjuryTreatmentDoctor WhoSchoolingWithout CommunicationBedside Manner Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
“In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.” HumansPainFilmCultureGamesLanguageHuman BeingsViolenceSocietyWorstTvsCommunicationInternetConsequenceEverydayTraumaScreensIndifferenceTechnologicalEveryday LifeTransfersNumbAdrenalineMomentaryAdrenaline Rush Author:John Naisbitt