Helen Fisher Quotes

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I want to have a family. Fighting and having a family at the same time is difficult.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

I have so much advice for men. They need to know that their mother is not their wife... and their wife will never be their mother.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.