Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

Not a MindZip member yet

Family

Feelings

Communication

Mistakes

Open

Rules

Worth

Virginia Satir's quotes

Virginia Satir

Explore more quotes

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Virginia Satir

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Virginia Satir

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Virginia Satir

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

Virginia Satir

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Virginia Satir

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Virginia Satir

We must not allow other peoples limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world who are probably not so sure themselves.

Virginia Satir

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.

Virginia Satir

Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated mistakes are tolerated communication is open and rules are flexible the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

Virginia Satir

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

Elaine MacDonald

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Bill Gates

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

Gloria Estefan

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Joichi Ito

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Bertolt Brecht

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

John Warnock

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Emma Thompson

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Stephen Covey

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Hidetoshi Nakata

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

John Marshall

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Jesse James Garrett

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

Communication works for those who work at it.

John Powell

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Michel de Montaigne

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Oliver Evans

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

James Madison

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

Benny Green

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

Patrick J. Kennedy

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Kevin J. Anderson

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

David Bohm

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Marilyn vos Savant