Fixing Quotes - Page 6

• Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Real, Home

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• A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.22, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Blessing, Knowing, Joy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.141, The Floating Press

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• Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.

  Lawrence Wilkerson

  Office, Long, People

  Interview with Daniel Schulman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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• Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

  Igor Babailov

  Mistake, Artist, Drawing

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

  Judi Dench

  Mind, Diaries, Done

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• Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Fun, Grandma

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• I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Healing, Thinking

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus is: Find a New Way to be Human”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

  Tom Baker

  Wall, Rain, Cutting

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• We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Past, Evil

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.103, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Well, The Rock says this, you should be concerned with fixing yourself a nice, tall glass of shut-up juice!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Nice, Glasses, Rocks

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• I like fixing things.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fixing Things

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• For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

  Allen Tate

  Hard Times, Mind, Horizon

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  Artur Davis

  Country, Artist, People

  "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Riding, Lines, Trouble

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• My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Car, Soldier, Looks

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• Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

  Bob McDonnell

  Ideas, Expanding, Terrible

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• I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

  George Clooney

  Country, Optimistic

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Groups, Doe

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• I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

  Claude Monet

  Mistake, Good Man, Despair

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

  Thomas McGuane

  Work, Years, Significant Things

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• Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

  Bobby Knight

  Pitfalls, Needs, Planning

  Bob Knight, Bob Hammel (2013). “The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Needs, Looks

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• It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

  Jane Austen

  Opportunity, May, Affection

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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