Dysfunctional Quotes

134 quotes by 128 authors

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. — Sidney Blumenthal
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. — Berton Averre
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. — Sue Grafton
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at… — Tony Abbott
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life — Unknown Author
Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself… — Jerry Seinfeld
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty… — Peter Thiel
Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would… — Jacque Fresco
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together. — Mariella Frostrup
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave
Youâ€™d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as… — T.D. Jakes
As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the childrenâ€”they divorced after my youngest brother left… — Bruce H. Lipton
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact… — Eckhart Tolle
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights… — Kenny Smith
On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless… — Kurt Overhardt
My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed… — Morrie Schwartz
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional… — Petra Kelly
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the… — Dana Spiotta
I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm… — Christopher Titus

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