Fussing Quotes

• ...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

  Paul McCartney

  Birthday, Time, Fighting

  Song: We Can Work It Out

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• It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.

  Walter Mason Camp

  Looks, Grit, Growling

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• There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Boys, Use

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.246, Triumph Books

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• Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

  John Lennon

  Fall, Long, Empathy

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• I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

  Robertson Davies

  Intelligent, Emotional, Thinking

  "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

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• The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and fussing and scheming. When his interest is diverted inwards he naturally relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the outer world. Having withdrawn his capital and paid it into his own Central Bank (where it appreciates to infinity), he has nothing to lose out there and no reason for interfering. He knows how to let things be and work out in their own time. He's in no hurry. Knowing the Self, he can hardly fail to trust its products.

  Douglas Harding

  Men, Self, Knowing

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• Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Destiny, Care

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  The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

  Confucius

  People, Forever, Littles

  Confucius (1998). “The Analects”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

  May Sarton

  Revision, Creation, Process

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• Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

  Gloria Steinem

  Crazy, Care, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Fall, Trying, Use

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.55, Macmillan

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• I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

  Hugh Grant

  Baby, Mind, Max

  "I want to be alone. Oh really?" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

  Vicki Baum

  Tired, Infidelity, Secret

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Negative, Reinforcement

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Kings, Fighting, Flying

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• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  Ellen Ullman

  Lying, Ignorance, Sea

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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• At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

  John Berger

  Mean, Artist, Perfection

  John Berger (2011). “A Painter of Our Time”, p.168, Vintage

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• A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Philosophy, Stupid

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• The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.

  Diana Athill

  Horse, Eight, Order

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• The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

  Robin McKinley

  Track, Roaring, Rope

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• Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

  Brenda Fassie

  Stars, Fans, Minutes

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• The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Nice, Giving

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

  Nick Bantock

  Worry, Decision, Tomorrow

  Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc

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