Virginia Satir Quotes

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

You can spend the day at work, but when you go home, and you're in the role of a father or a husband, you don't have to remind yourself that you shouldn't tell your wife to hold the messages. If you do, that marriage is not going to last very long.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

I never remember my parents having an argument.

How do I make the son, daughter, wife of Paterno interesting? Then you just have to start seeing people.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.