Virginia Satir Quotes

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Virginia Satir

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• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Communication
  • Honest
  • Rare

• I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Communication

• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Day

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Theory
  • Philosophical

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Internet

• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Life
  • Guy
  • You

• Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Communication

• Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • Man
  • Communication

• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Today
  • Communication
  • Gossip

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• Words are all we have.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words
  • Communication

• The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Actors
  • Communication
  • Mood

• Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus

  

  Aaron Hoopes
  • Focus
  • Moment
  • Breaths

• There are five types of communication: Information sharing Requests Promises Sharing of oneself Debating, decision making, or point proving Yet only two drive results: requests and promises.

  

  Christine Comaford
  • Information
  • Communication
  • Promises

• The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

  

  Carol Bly
  • Forever
  • Literature
  • Secret

• There's been a time where I was like, I wanna be a folk singer; no, I wanna sing soul. I want to sing classical music. I want to sing R&B. I want to be on Broadway. I just wanna sing. Whatever comes out of my mouth, that's what I want to do.

  

  Khalid
  • Time
  • Music
  • Soul

• Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Communication
  • Breaths