Fixing Quotes - Page 10

• Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

  Tom Duff

  Learning, Broken, Example

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• The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.

  George E. P. Box

  Numbers, Risk, Important

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• I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Grief, Healing, Lament

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• No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

  David Hume

  Agreement, Perfect, Doubt

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Weather, Space

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• When you have competing companies that are engaging in the raising of prices in lock step with each other, you have to question whether or not this in coincidence or price fixing. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil and Chevron and Texaco, we have very little competition among the energy companies.

  Jeanine Pirro

  Competition, Energy, Locks

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• People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Government, People

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December 1, 1994.

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• Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

  Peter Russell

  Memories, Eye, Ideas

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• Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Blow, Wind, People

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11,

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• Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

  Jon Taffer

  People, Bars, Tough

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2016

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• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Insecurity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.

  Meyer Schapiro

  Meaningful, Religious, Art

  Meyer Schapiro (1994). “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society”

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• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.  The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre.  Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Fun, Choices

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• It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

  Eve Ensler

  Attention, Serving Others, Seems

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Dark, Fire

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Real, Men

  "Memories, dreams, reflections".

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• Once I get the horse where he’s responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, it’s not just the horse that needs fixing. It’s the human that needs fixing and it’s the human that created that in the first place.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Attitude, Mind

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• Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Stories, Done

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.109, Penguin

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Tasks, World

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Giving, Limits

  Lysander Spooner (1852). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.19

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• In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.

  Dan Millman

  Real, Successful, Focus

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.124, New World Library

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• Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Broken, Ego, Soul

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• Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Important, Might

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Business, Compassion, Tasks

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