Dysfunction Quotes

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

— Hillary Clinton

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Change is threatening to the status quo.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

— Robert Downey, Jr

I hate that word dysfunction.

— Jonathan Franzen

“One needn't stop dysfunction; just evince and reflect.”

— Andy Harglesis

“He has a reptile dysfunction.”

— Jodi Picoult

“We are in the era of dysfunctional relationships.”

— Steven Magee

“Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

— Eckhart Tolle

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

— Janice Dickinson

I was born an emotional tampon in a cauldron of dysfunction.

— Dana Gould

Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.

— Viola Davis

“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”

— Randy Elrod

“They'd been playing house, but it wasn't a game either of them liked.”

— Melanie Golding

“My family may be dysfunctional, but I think it’s pretty functional in its dysfunction.”

— Amanda Torrey

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so…

— John Ashbery

“Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the…

— Stephen Karam

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is…

— William Gibson

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction…

— Oprah Winfrey

If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve…

— Colin Firth

“Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother’s treatment…

— Sara Niles

“The more dysfunctional the system, the more closed and rigid are the roles it assigns. In families that are chemically, sexually or…

— John Bradshaw

As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to…

— Barack Obama

“It wasn't love, not quite, but it was almost there and it was desperate and I didn't know how to put it…

— Kristine Wyllys

If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger…

— Amishi Jha

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to…

— Anonymous

Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars,…

— Nancy Gibbs

“Arthur Kleinman explains, “We learn how to identify and react to pain, how to label and communicate dysfunction” (Klienman, **). He explains…

— Shan

We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk…

— Darold Treffert

“Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England winters can be very cold. The curtains he'd…

— Jonathan Franzen

Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.…

— Barack Obama

I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president…

— Mitch McConnell

“A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery,…

— David W. Earle

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

— Eckhart Tolle

But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the…

— Esther Perel