Virginia Satir Quotes

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Virginia Satir

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fan
  • Excited
  • Actress

• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Never
  • Endless
  • Surprises

• I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Rest
  • Frustration

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Men
  • Children
  • Home

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo. I'm romantic, but I can also be seductive. I can be cool and charismatic, swagger-type.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Cool
  • Romantic

• Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.

  

  Marsha Blackburn

• If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Wish

• Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Live
  • Fool
  • Times

• If I'm at home, I get up around 7:30. If I have time, I like to do some exercise. My current favourite is 'hot' yoga. If I'm filming, I will go to the office or set, and then take meetings.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

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

  

  Virginia Satir
  • People
  • Misery
  • Certainty