Fixing Quotes - Page 2

• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Reality, Law

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• The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Needs, Auditors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.384, Random House

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• Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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• Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Communication, Media

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• Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Hurt, Communication

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• I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq. The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level staff able to tell him what's actually happening, and has created a culture of denial and loyalty that makes fixing mistakes or holding people accountable all but impossible.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Loyalty, Mistake, Reality

  "A Failed CEO". washingtonmonthly.com. September 7, 2005.

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• The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fall, Writing, Simple

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• 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, Fixing Things

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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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• One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

  Kate Winslet

  Intuition, Needs, Done

  "Kate Winslet Opens Up About Divorce From Sam Mendes In British Vogue" By Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

  Annie Besant

  Easter, Hero, Moon

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.796, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Real, Work

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.119, Psychology Press

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• We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

  Mitch Albom

  Careers, Missing, Want

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• The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

  Rick Riordan

  May, Needs, World

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• I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

  Robin Hobb

  Horse, Lying, Past

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• I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down." I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file.

  Janet Evanovich

  Strong, Real, Home

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Mar 02, 2012

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• As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

  Melissa Marr

  Errors, Littles, Stuff

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• According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Broken, Tasks, Generations

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• Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Touching, Trouble, Causing Trouble

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• Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

  Ron Wyden

  Two Sides, Care, Coins

  "10 Questions with Senator Ron Wyden". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2009.

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• You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

  Simone Elkeles

  Skills, Car, Athletic

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Fixing Things, Talent, Glory

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

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• We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Broken, Generations, Next

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• Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.

  Tamora Pierce

  Glasses, Magic, Vision

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “The Will of the Empress”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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• He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.

  Joan Bauer

  Light, Tree, Together

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.114, Penguin

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