Maintenance Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Happiness, Perfect, Charm

  Deborah Turbeville, Louis Auchincloss (1994). “Deborah Turbeville's Newport remembered: a photographic portrait of a gilded past”, ABRAMS

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• There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny Life, Birth

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2001.

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• The human body is like a condominium. The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Body, Enjoy, Humans

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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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• Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

  Lucero Isaac

  Practice, Underdevelopment

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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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• 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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• Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Illusion, Function, Crucial

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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 husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Husband

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.51, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Consistency, Tradition, Conventions

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.396, e-artnow

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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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• A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Machines, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

  Anandi Gopal Joshi

  Men, Degradation, Social

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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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• 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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• I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

  Eva Green

  Routine, Lows

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• Im high maintenance, but Im worth it.

  Lara Logan

  High Maintenance, Worth It

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