Quotes About Fixing

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand or figure out. There was simply the present moment, awareness, impermanence, birdsong, love. There is no fixing this setup here. It seems broken and ruined at times, but it isn't: it's simply the nature of human life.

For people like me, the fight-or-flight instinct comes out in the desperate desire to fix, people-please, and create harmony.

On weekends, she had once told us, she liked to go to Stebbins hardware and ask the gray-haired men who clerked there how to fix a sagging door, or what to do about a curling wallpaper seam. She really did need their advice, she said; but also, she found it a comfort. It took her back to the time when her father was alive.

If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.

Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

And so i write to fix him in place, to pass time in his company, to make sure I remember, even though I know I will never forget.

After all, not even mobsters fixed their kitchen sinks with handguns. They could blow their drains out.

Suddenly Taryn was furious. 'Why the hell are you always so careful?' 'What else should I be? Most of the good in the world is remedial. It's fixing things and caring for people. Taking care.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

the miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential.  Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

Change is to focus all your energy not in fixing the past but in recreating the future.

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.

We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

The big question on everyone's mind is, 'Did Tim Donaghy fix games?' The answer is no. I didn't need to fix them. I usually knew which team was going to win based on which referees had been assigned to the game, their personalities, and the relationships they had with the players and coaches of the teams involved.

I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.