Quotes About Dynamics

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

You know how many friends become enemies and how many enemies become friends -- it's just changing all the time. So many people presume you are something, then they meet you and become proper friends, and the ones who really knew you can't stand it, for whatever reason.

The problems I write of in this section do not focus on only violent practices inside correctional facilities, detention centers, or federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Just as importantly, these internal dynamics are significant because they express and reinforce sexual inequality and gender injustice in the larger society.

You exaggerate your own reactions.

With identical twins, you always get a little snidey one.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

job!' This son of hers was caught up in the middle, as usual. It was the bane of the middle child's life. Caught between the first-born and the last-born, they were often left to their own devices.

Your family is either the best thing that ever happened to you or it's the worst thing that ever happened to you.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

older children seldom paid much attention to younger ones. The reverse was not true.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

The two main treats of the world of total transparency are its hyper-dynamics (because everything is shifting at a mind-blowing speed) and an immeasurably higher dose of ethics.

Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.

Who needs her here anyway, Dara thought, walking through the front door, that familiar scent of mildew, paste, old perfume. Who needed Marie's buzzy, antic energy, her nighttime pacing and her bad dreams, the way she used all Dara's tampons and ate all the sardines?

I make you nervous," he said. She frowned. "Of course you don't." He clearly did, and that, perversely, made him feel.. relaxed...

How is it that those systems in nature we call complex and adaptive—brains, insect colonies, the immune system, cells, the global economy, biological evolution—produce such complex and adaptive behavior from underlying, simple rules?

A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.

Melody meant almost nothing. Aggression, rhythm, and texture were all.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

Groupthink is the term Irving Janis coined for this phenomenon: the kind of flawed group dynamics that lets bad ideas go unchallenged by questions and disagreement and that can sometimes yield disastrous outcomes.