Fixation Quotes

• But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Thinking, Too Much

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• The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

  Molly Haskell

  Sex, Haskell, Fetish

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

  David Blaine

  Math, Magic, Cards

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

  Bell Hooks

  Determination, Self, Black

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

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  Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Fluidity, Way

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

  Sarah Manguso

  Anxiety, Inability, Ongoing

  "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, March 03, 2015.

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• Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we let go of something, we experience another level of freedom.

  Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Levels, Limits

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• The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Order, Identity

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.224, Image

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• When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

  Momofuku Ando

  Adversity, Greed, Unexpected

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• The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Mind, Enemy

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• Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Long, Tradition

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• It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Meaningful, Validation, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything.
  Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.
  We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations.
  But by meditating-by not doing anything-
  all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Thinking, Snakes, Meditation

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• In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

  Jeff Feuerzeig

  College, Southern, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Caring, Touching

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

  N. T. Wright

  Heaven, Dying, Culture

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• A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• [T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Acceptance, People, Trying

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.27, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, World

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• Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'

  Ingmar Bergman

  Night, Feelings, Arrogance

  Interview with Charles Thomas Samuels, 1971.

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• Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost in the fantasy of it all. As a DJ, I'm trying to create the opportunity for this to happen.

  Jeff Mills

  Opportunity, People, Trying

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• The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sex, Party, Fighting

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• England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.

  William Crookes

  Food, Science, Discovery

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