Dysfunction Quotes

Dysfunction Quote of the day

You’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 you look

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

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

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

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.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

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.

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

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

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

I hate that word dysfunction.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

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

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

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.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

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

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.