Quotes and Sayings About Dysfunction
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
-- Abbie CornishSource : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
-- Bharati Mukherjee -
A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca.
-- Chris Kilham -
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.
-- Christine Vachon -
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It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.
-- Chuck Todd -
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
-- Dana Spiotta -
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions..
-- Don Henley -
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
-- Downtown Julie Brown -
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The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.
-- Eli Attie -
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
-- Eric Holder -
I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
-- George Michael -
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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
-- James Hillman -
I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
-- Janice Dickinson -
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
-- Josh Radnor -
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
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There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
-- Laura Miller -
Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.
-- Margaret Heffernan -
I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.
-- Mariel Hemingway -
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"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.
-- Mark RuffaloSource : "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.
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After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
-- Marshall GoldsmithSource : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books
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Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!
-- Michael Bloomberg -
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Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
-- Mo Rocca -
Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.
-- Patrick Lencioni