Maintenance Quotes

• We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

  Deniece Schofield

  Yesterday, Today

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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance.

  Michael Dolan

  Garden, Secret, Landscape

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• The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Years, Civilization

  Source: www.today.com

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• Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

  Lucero Isaac

  Practice, Underdevelopment

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• Maintenance is terribly important.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Important

  "How I get dressed" by Marion Hume, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2007.

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• Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

  David Karp

  Focus, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• Development is maintenance.

  Brian Marick

  Learning, Development, Programming

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• The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

  Scott Adams

  Moving, Men, Talking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.240, Penguin

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• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Change, Success, Leadership

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

  Virginia Satir

  Eight, Survival, Hug

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• Entropy requires no maintenance.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Entropy

  Robert Anton Wilson (1992). “Reality is what You Can Get Away with: A Screenplay”, Dell Books

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• A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Cells, Energy, Function

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• My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Robert Frost

  Acceptance, Long, Violence

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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• A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Law, Motorcycle

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• Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

  Wietse Venema

  Business, Effort, Software

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• There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

  Betty Buckley

  Singers, Corny

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

  Guy Ritchie

  Facts, Lows, Flash

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

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• We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Government, America, People

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• Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.

  John L. Phillips

  Two, People, Support

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• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Believe, Mean

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• In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

  Tony Visconti

  Senior, Jobs, New York

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• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Expectations, Groups, Levels

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