“The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.” WayUseGoalGreaterTalentBrokenCoachingDiscoveringNew WaysEffectivenessFixingNew Talent Author:Gifford Pinchot
“I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.” IfsKnowsSchoolRolesTeacherFashionDesignBrokenNeededProgramEvolveAssociatesFixingDeanAdministratorsFixing Things Author:Tim Gunn
“Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.” BodyPassionImaginationLove YouBrokenAnd LoveMetaphorYour BodyMagazinesMakersNot AfraidOriginalityPlasticSurgeonsFixingSellersPlastic Surgeons Author:Marion Woodman
“Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.” BookLastsReadingBrokenBalanceGayBonesSparksLast TimeFixingPlugsBeing GayBroken Bone Author:William J. Clinton
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.” IfsNeedsBelieveHumansFeelingsSpiritualJoyOrderCultureHuman BeingsForeverEmotionalPoetBrokenSafeTraditionComplicatedTraumaGenerousRitualCeremonyCravingFixingDo It YourselfHaulPlumberWeighingBroken DownResourcefulnessDevising Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“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.” KindStillsEndsSometimesMomentsHappensLife IsNextSpeakGenerationsBrokenBirthTasksLifetimeMetaphorProfessionWoundsHolesDividesNext GenerationFixingUnfinishedShiva Author:Abraham Verghese
“Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.” WayMayDifferentSoulWholeHelpingThreeSeeingBrokenEgoWeakDifferent WaysServingFixing Author:Rachel Naomi Remen
“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.” NextGenerationsBrokenTasksLifetimeNext GenerationFixingUnfinished Author:Abraham Verghese
“You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasHappensForceLandBrokenMarkAskingGood IdeasBoldnessFixingScrapAsking QuestionsQuestion Mark Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“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.” ReasonLastsPastLyingForceCausesEffortGoneClearHappenedEffectsEventsBrokenOne DayHorseBreathsCarefulSnowFixedSatWetYardsFragmentsFixingLooking Down Author:Robin Hobb