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“Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.”

Men Mind Jesus Christ Sleep Attention Sweet Awake Abiding Fixing Very Sweet Sweet Things

Author:Hudson Taylor

“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.”

People Ifs World Years Real Whole Together Water Break Painting Politician Civilization Bridges Keep Going Breaking Down Pipe Steam Maintenance Fixing Subway

Author:Alan Weisman

“Jesus Christ can help us fix anything that needs fixing in our lives.”

Needs Helping Jesus Christ Our Lives Jesus Christ Fixing

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.”

Ideas Good Ideas Dose Fixing Variability Fixing Things

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.”

Thinking Want States Culture United United States Agriculture Fixing Disconnected Impediments

Author:Alice Waters

“Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.”

Use Granted Loan Fixing Repayment

Book:Tusculan Disputations

Source: Tusculan Disputations

“If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.”

Ifs Feels Might Would Be Running Jobs Moving Situation Behavior Function Guilt Hungry Lions Running Away Locks Provoking Terrified Fixing Bad Behavior Lock Up Hungry Lion

Author:David D. Burns

“The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Has Beens Government Humanity Pay Taxes Method Credit Producers Consumers Manipulation Commerce Employed Obliged Fixing Financiers

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.”

Desire Sight Longing Misery Rewards Hearing Invisible Cures Fixing

Book:Light on the Path

Source: Light on the Path

“The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.”

Language Notion Fixing Groove Pedants

Book:American Language

Source: American Language

“There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national debt, and we're paying a lot down. But you're fixing to hear me tell you part of the remedy for people who have got a lot of credit card debt is to make sure people get some of their own money back.”

People America Burden Credit Debt Cards Consumers Remedy Fixing Credit Card National Debt Credit Card Debt

Author:George W. Bush

“Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.”

World Vision Photography Tools Cameras Inadequate Fixing

Author:Daido Moriyama

“Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”

People Done Teeth Potential Fixing Human Potential Unlocking Untapped Potential

Author:Bill Bradley

“A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.”

“So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Shows Problem Running Process Interesting Situation Issues Focus Cutting Seeing Ten Stuck Versions Fixing

Author:Bryan Burk

“Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.”

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.”

Way Needs Writing Character Seems Written Practicals Rational Plot Dishes Fixing Making Up Plumbing

Author:Etgar Keret

“The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.”

Use Jobs Lasts Games Teaching Car Fields Football Tvs Cameras Access Driving Setting Locals Settings Stations Vans Mobile Covering Fixing Football Game Grownups

Author:Louis C. K.

“Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.”

People Ifs War Jobs America Fall Nations Millions Falling Apart Infrastructure Fixing Unemployed Crumbling Crumbling Infrastructure

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy.”

Facts Body Simple Principles Labor Foundation Astronomy Reputation Permanent Merit Proportion Chemistry Fixing Kepler

Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, and Agricultural lectures, pt. 1

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, and Agricultural lectures, pt. 1

“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.”

Book Lasts Reading Broken Balance Gay Bones Sparks Last Time Fixing Plugs Being Gay Broken Bone

Author:William J. Clinton

“Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.”

Knows Lasts Hours Half Struggle Minutes Ten Leaving Spending Copies Headlines Fixing Rearranging

Author:John Caples

“Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.”

May Use Problem Teach Fixing

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier carrying out his duty, following his allegiance to his country and to the mission at hand. But yet, there was always this unease plaguing me. "What are we doing here?" "Are we really fixing this country or are we doing more harm than good?" And the most pressing question: "How do we pull ourselves out of this quicksand?" I think I'm still there in that white space you mentioned, trying to get clarity for myself on what this war did to us as a nation.”

Thinking Trying Stills War Country Hands Nations Space White Duty Soldier Following Missions Harm Clarity Allegiance Fixing Quicksand White Space

Author:Dave Abrams

“She [Sarah Palin] doesn`t quite understand the issue [post-traumatic stress disorder] and, you know, if she`s going to continue to be in this space, hopefully she can do some homework and make some policy recommendation that are relevant to fixing the problem.”

Ifs Knows Problem Can Do Space Issues Policy Stress Hopefully Posts Disorder Relevant Homework Fixing Palin Recommendations Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Author:Jon Soltz

“I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."”

People Ifs Needs Helping Wanted Actors Needed Training Fixing Need Help

Author:Condola Rashad

“I'm not really satisfied with the technology today. Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems.”

Stills Problem Today Film Technology Easier Satisfied Digital Fixing Digital Technology

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.”

People Records Bunch Fixing

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.”

Way Looks Children Light Able Spirit Certain Parent Understanding Levels Roles Emotional Evolution Approach Conscious All Things Raised Obsession Spots Maturity Integration Fixing

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.”

Thinking Want Feels Writing Trying Book Ends Feelings Fiction Realistic Fixing Realistic Fiction

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.”

People Ifs Jobs Tomorrow Protect Climate Fixing

Author:Jill Stein

“I want to do things that haven’t been done, including fixing and making our inner cities better for the African-American citizens that are so great, and for the Latinos, Hispanics, and I look forward to doing it. It’s called make America great again.”

Want Looks Done America Cities Havens Citizens Including African American Latino Fixing American Citizens Inner City

Author:Donald Trump

“I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.”

Fixing

Author:John Kasich

“Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted. And, you know, I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that. They think it's fixed, but it's not fixed. So, we need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Looks Train Workers Improvement Fixed Dramatic Fixing

Author:John Kasich

“Everyone keeps talking about fixing and returning America - making America great. But yet, nobody ever seems to focus on the fact that you're not going to make any country great if you don't address its children.”

Ifs Children Country Facts Seems America Talking Focus Addresses Fixing Keep Talking

Author:Mitch Albom

“I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.”

Giving Firsts Hands Government Father Behinds Cutting Cold Mets Office Waste Sitting Give Me Sat Wasting Time Desks Palaces Fixing Slender Don't Waste Time No Time To Waste

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.”

Jobs Law Passing Passings Improving Fixing Legislators Revising

Author:Tim Kaine

“I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.”

Ends Beautiful Black Interest Community Grew Development Grew Up Organization Blind Fixing Black Community Nonprofits Beautiful Love Fixing Things

Author:Erykah Badu

“Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.”

Want Enough Growth Fields Shapes Fixing Playing Fields Tilt

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political system has evolved into a giant bureaucracy, the primary purpose of which is self-preservation, not fixing anything.”

Self Country Facts Political Purpose Republican Despite Primaries Giants Preservation Bureaucracy Fixing Political Systems Self Preservation

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."”

Wells Looks Made I Can Remember Film Fall Asks Lines Careers Written Car Like You Scene Laughter Okay Caught Ask Me Look Up Caught Up Mechanic Falling Down Fixing Squirrels High Points

Author:John Ratzenberger

“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.”

“Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.”

Thinking Needs Kind Ends Purpose Certain Forever Sitting Labels Posts Frozen Stamps Here And There Fixing Great Ones Fixation

Author:Chinua Achebe

“There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.”

I Can Play Character Would Be Certain Imagine Mines Incapable Fixing

Author:Annie Baker

“I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.”

Way Want Care Effort Economy Health Care Unemployment Fixing Health Care System American Economy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.”

Two Economy Weapons Missions Nuclear Usa Iran Nuclear Weapons Presidency Fixing Preventing

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.”

People Problem America Certain Anger Angry Fixing

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.”

Care Mistake Patient Spending Profession Health Care Our Time Recognizing Fixing

Author:Mehmet Oz

“Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.”

“'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.”

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

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