Top 33 Gottman's Quotes
#1. We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.
John M. Gottman
#2. John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.
William J Doherty
#3. Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#4. We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#5. Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.
Pietro Metastasio
#6. The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.
Vantile Whitfield
#7. Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.
John M. Gottman
#9. A hallmark of domestic violence is a man feeling threatened by a woman's friends and attempting to control or limit a woman's social contacts, or to isolate her socially.
John M. Gottman
#10. In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
John M. Gottman
#11. When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.
John M. Gottman
#12. Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.
John M. Gottman
#13. Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#14. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.
John M. Gottman
#15. I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.
John M. Gottman
#16. No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.
Jerzy Kosinski
#17. news flash: Men, you have the power to make or break a relationship.
John M. Gottman
#19. Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.
Gene Black
#20. Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.
Malcolm Gladwell
#21. I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.
John M. Gottman
#22. In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.
Michael Ellsberg
#23. Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.
John M. Gottman
#24. Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.
Matt Damon
#25. There's nothing more fulfilling in therapy than watching two people find each other again.
Julie Schwartz Gottman
#26. In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.
John M. Gottman
#27. I like the medium boys. Not real perfect, but not too bad, either.
Keke Palmer
#28. Which scientific puzzle confounds the genius of Hawking? "Women," he said. "They are a complete mystery.
John M. Gottman
#29. Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.
Amos Lee
#30. How else can I save myself from hormones on their last hoorah?
H.A. Kotys
#31. When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
Brit Hume
#32. Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
John M. Gottman
#33. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.
John M. Gottman
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