Feist Quotes

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

I just want to fight and not talk too much.

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14.

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)

So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?

You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.