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

“Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.”

“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.'”

World Has Beens Culture Language Cities Century Dying Equal Celebrate Labels Attachment Fierce Stereotype Resent Civics Reflexes Calcutta Dysfunction Ferocity

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.”

“I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.”

Thinking Way Children Different Mother Reading Issues Degrees Our Children Honestly Your Children Right Way Frustrating Blogs Schizophrenia Dysfunction

Author:Vera Farmiga

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

Helping Government Waiting Chaos Federal Government Dallas Dysfunction

Author:Laura Miller

“Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.”

Inspirational Body Memories Brain Consciousness Opinion Source Pure Ego Perception Function Objectives Tied Disturbed Dysfunction

Author:Pim van Lommel

“Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.”

“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.”

Sometimes Hard Play Government Levels Tvs Dysfunction

Author:Chuck Todd

“Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation - one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”

Children Facts Stories Mother Fiction Steps Share Adults Complicated Divorce Usual Attempting Life Story Family History Dysfunction Obfuscation Step Children

Author:Melissa Gilbert

“"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.”

Thinking Humans Given Grace Fronts Drug Normal Shame Forgiving Addict Alcoholics Fooled Drug Addict Dysfunction

Author:Mark Ruffalo

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

Stuff Amount Guilt Spending Dysfunction

Author:Dave Ramsey

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

Mind Power Of Now Dysfunction

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.”

Thinking World Play Felt Worry Entity Examination Dysfunction Nationalistic

Author:Ralph Fiennes

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

Men States Enough Government Three Rooms New York Symbols Dysfunction Enough Is Enough New York State

Author:Michael Bloomberg

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

Littles Ends America Simple Findings Blue Cures Pills Dysfunction

Author:Mo Rocca

“We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.”

People Thinking Needs Real Compassion Issues Identity Gay Members Profound Lifestyle Our Family Satan Disorder Very Sad Dysfunction Sad Life

Author:Michele Bachmann

“If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.”

Ifs Mean Whole Happens Kids Parent Break Failing Partners Breaking Down Arena Sibling Disappoint Dysfunction Enchiladas

Author:Mary Karr

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

Ifs Play Dysfunction Jonah

Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

Found Air Sea Waste Harder Environmental Corruption Inequality Degradation Dysfunction Environmental Degradation Disenchantment

Book:A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition

Source: A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition

“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.”

People Ifs Humans Looks Watches Stupid Strange Planets Tvs Destruction Madness Intelligent Forests Manifestation Pollution Dysfunction Juxtaposition Weaponry

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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

Technology Madness Science And Technology Dysfunction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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

Common Issues Ingredients Dysfunction

Author:Caroline Myss

“If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.”

Ifs Way Trying Firsts Play Character Might Order Achieve Shyness Dysfunction Playing Someone

Author:Colin Firth

“I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job.”

People Thinking Bigs Government Kids Jobs College Drug Frustration Neighborhood Surround Frustrated Loan Dysfunction

Author:John Kasich

“What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.”

Art Language Written Particular Findings Art Is Occasions Poetry Is Marvelous Adequate Dysfunction

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency”

Self Problem Produce Behavior Standards Aspect Reactions Adopted Personal Experiences Dissatisfaction Dysfunction Self Efficacy Despondency Behavior Problems

Author:Albert Bandura

“Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.”

Ifs Years Mind Humans States Humanity Consciousness Technology Effects Planets Degrees Hundred Remains Human Mind Science And Technology Human Consciousness Dysfunction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.”

Stills Today School Poverty Teacher Needed Program Inspired Bounds Public School School System Dysfunction

Author:Viola Davis

“Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.”

Real Moments Bits Understanding Mistake Clear Sadness Leaving Treasure Remembered Tolerate Flood Communion Broken Hearted Dysfunction Rubble Brokenhearted Sadness And Anger

Author:Martha Beck

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

Seeing Cold Depression Miserable Damn Phenomenon Dysfunction

Author:James Hillman

“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.”

People Ifs Sometimes Seems Suffering Wonder Dysfunction

Author:John Ashbery

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

Abuse Dysfunction

Author:Justin Torres

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

Helping Grows Fire Our Lives Surface Dysfunction

Author:Tyler Ward

“What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.”

Huge Psychological Dysfunction

Author:Kathy Lette

“And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.”

Thinking Feels Courses Actors Struggle Dysfunction

Author:Hugh Jackman

“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.”

Ifs Yeah Cures Bob Appearing Spears Dysfunction Pepsi

Author:Conan O'Brien

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

Born Emotional Dysfunction Cauldrons Tampons

Author:Dana Gould

“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.”

World Art Joy Artist Felt Parent Saws Tunes Autonomy Dysfunction Peace And Joy

Author:Meredith Brooks

“There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.”

“As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.”

“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.”

Kind Has Beens Certain Interest Strange Drama Great American Dysfunction Dysfunctional Family

Author:Stephen Karam

“, I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on her, because "The Jerry Springer Show" has such huge characters. I'm trying to come up with a little more dysfunction than that.”

Trying Littles Character Shows Huge Normal Come Up Frank Jerry Dysfunction Jerry Springer Show

Author:Max von Essen

“If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.”

Ifs Kind Whole Decision Regret Errors Psychological Decision Making Remorse Rest Of Your Life Dysfunction Cascade

Author:Amishi Jha

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

May Enough Shows Talent Calling Aptitude Indicators Dysfunction Ineptitude

Author:James Hillman

“The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.”

“I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left behind, they think the economy has failed them, they think our government has failed, they can't stand the gridlock and dysfunction in our politics, and I'm determined to produce more good jobs with rising incomes, and deal with all of the concerns that families have about education, college affordability, student debt.”

“An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).”

Heart Kind Whole Type Ideals Weight Plant Cancer Diets Abundance Reverse Peers Strokes Diabetes Circulation Heart Attack Dysfunction Plant Based Diet Whole Foods Type 2 Diabetes

Author:Kathy Freston

“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.”

Writing Issues Subjects Importance Careful Abandon Dysfunction

Author:Eden Robinson

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