Virginia Satir Quotes

The message sent is not always the message received.

Virginia Satir

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• We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Future
  • Community
  • Space

• The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Better

• I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • You
  • Myself

• If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

  

  Leander Paes
  • Passion

• I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

  

  Mario Puzo
  • Believe
  • America

• It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • She
  • Culture
  • Church

• I do know that I would never - though you should never say never - work with a decorator, because I don't want to see the touch of someone else in my own space.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Work
  • Space

• I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • High
  • Clever

• I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Time
  • Light
  • Dark

• If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Time
  • Important
  • Looks

• The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Good
  • God
  • Power

• The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Messages

• I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • World
  • Culture
  • Messages

• We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.

  

  John Gates
  • Messages
  • Naive

• The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Economic
  • Climate
  • Messages

• Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • End
  • Season
  • Fortunately

• We did a good job of staying with them in the first half. In the second half, we had too many turnovers that led to too many baskets that they didn't earn. As long as we compete like that, we'll be all right.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Job
  • Staying
  • First Half

• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Started
  • Messages
  • Defenders

• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  

  George Eliot
  • Music
  • Heaven
  • Souls

• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Things
  • Difference
  • Appreciating

• In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

  

  David Markson
  • Interest
  • Profound
  • Subjects

• The message sent is not always the message received.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Messages