Todd Bridges Quotes

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

The best thing I can recommend is to listen to your child. I really mean that.

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

It's kind of cliche, but communication is the biggest thing in a relationship. You have to talk; you have to express yourselves. You don't want to look back and resent not being heard.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

A child deserves the maximum respect.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.