Dysfunction Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Teamwork, Real, Firsts

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Cures

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• 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.

  Shalom Auslander

  Disappointment, Anomalies, Disease

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• 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

  Memories, Needs, Disorder

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• Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

  Hillary Clinton

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• The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Party, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  If You Love Someone, Helping, First Lady

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• 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

  Impact, Want, Coincidence

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• 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.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Breakup, Song, Drama

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• 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

  Men, Numbers, Doctors

  Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.160, St. Martin's Griffin

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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

  Government, Waiting, Dallas

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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 Cornish

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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

  Jan Karon

  Book, Character, Dark

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• Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Example, Noir, Addresses

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• In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two~thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia.

  Tom Brewer

  Mother, Children, Dark

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• Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Arise, Function

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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

  Cells, Goal, Growth

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.36, Penguin

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• Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

  Lemn Sissay

  Reactions, Untruth

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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

  New York, Men, Three

  Michael Bloomberg's State of the City Address, www.gothamgazette.com. January 17, 2007.

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• 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.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Thinking, Play, Worry

  "Ralph Fiennes Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating with Wes Anderson, If He Will Direct More Shakespeare, and More in Berlin". Interview, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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• 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.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Gay, Thinking

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