Quotes About Quick-fix

When physicians are under time pressure, they are apparently more inclined to choose a quick-fix solution, despite its serious downsides.

The universal solution to ninety-seven percent of life's problems. Duct tape.

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Science chases money and money chases its tail and the best minds of my generation can't make bail. But the bacteria are coming-- that's my prediction. It's the answer to this culture of the quick-fix prescription.

Two of my favourite products for a quick-fix are lipstick and mascara. I think with lipstick, brighter is better.

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.

We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

Since the '60s, we've lived so much in an age of quick fixes that the culture itself has become a quick fix.

If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.

Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

How do you do it? Teach me the techniques." What they're really saying is, "Give me some quick fix advice or solution that will relieve the pain in my own situation.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

we don't ask what works, we simply gravitate to what sounds miraculous.

The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.

The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Regrettably, we live in a society that has become habituated to the quick-fix solutions that are implied in pathologizing labels such as "depression," "anxiety," "bad marriage," "bad job." At times, of course, these classifications are useful, at least for diagnostic purposes.