Fixing Things Quotes

• I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

  Francesca Annis

  Believe, Energy, Way

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• Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.

  Don Porter

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

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• Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Done, Want

  Source: onstagereview.com

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• I like fixing things.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fixing

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• As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.

  Haroon Mirza

  Children, Ideas, Fixing

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• And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

  Jill Shalvis

  Talent, Glory, Former

  Jill Shalvis (2010). “Simply Irresistible”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ideas, Dose, Variability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

  Hanna Rosin

  Taken, Independent, House

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• Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.

  Les Miles

  Congratulations, Team, Men

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• I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Organization, Community

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• I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Teacher, School

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• Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right.  It has nothing to do with fixing things.  It has nothing to do with standards.  Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward.  It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Writing, Sight

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• Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Running, Fun

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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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