Quotes About Dysfunction

I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.

A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

Oh. Momma told me not to tell you that your bed squeaks. But I think you know, 'cause I could hear it this morning. Jake dropped his fork. Tor, for the first time Jake had ever seen, turned scarlet. Maureen looked at them both and sighed. Christmas is always so interesting with you, Mark.

You know your family's got problems when the hippies with the stoned dog are worried about you.

I don't know if you noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking in the mirror at itself.

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.

The fact is,' said Norah, 'that there's something wrong with our family. We're soft, or lazy, or something.' 

Six months later, Maureen stabbed Mom.

Once the fire was out and the sodden, burned tree lay smoldering on the floor, we all just stood there. No one tried to wring Dad's neck or yell at him or even point out that he'd ruined the Christmas his family had spent weeks planning—the Christmas that was supposed to be the best we'd ever had. When Dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off, and that was what we did that night.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

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.

Believers insist that dysfunction is not an intrinsic flaw of MBO, but a simple matter of poor implementation. When dysfunction occurs, they (our era's new commissars) refine and redefine the objectives and try again. After five decades of experience with MBO, its believers are still refining and redefining and still waiting for results. I'm ready to call MBO's constant failure intrinsic.

A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.

KAREN: What do you want me to say? BARBARA: Tell him we got a sick woman here. VIOLET: You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house! BARBARA: You don't get it, do you? (With a burst of adrenaline, she strides to Violet, towers over her) I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW! (Blackout.)

Violet really has a way of putting you in attack mode, you know it? BARBARA: She doesn't have anything to do with it. BILL: Don't you believe it. You feel such rage for her that you can't help dishing it my direction— BARBARA: I swear to God, you psychoanalyze me right now, I skin you.

Your boyfriend is a psycho, just like I always thought!

WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!

This failure to build trust is damaging because it sets the tone for the second dysfunction: fear of conflict. Teams that lack trust are incapable of engaging in unfiltered and passionate debate of ideas. Instead, they resort to veiled discussions and guarded comments.

The fact remains that team, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfuctional.

teams, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfunctional.

The fact remains that teams, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfunctional.

la primera disfunción: la ausencia de confianza. Se

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.