Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of…

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is…

— Rex Stout

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

— Elliott Erwitt

“...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity…

— Marcel Proust

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

— Francisco Largo Caballero

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection…

— John Dewey

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

— Marcel Proust

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

— Octavio Paz

“Certainly sand was not suitable for life. Yet, was a stationary condition absolutely indispensable for existence? Didn't unpleasant competition arise precisely because one tried…

— Kōbō Abe

“ There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you…

— Frank Herbert

Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations,…

— Tom Robbins

“We have made a problem for ourselves by confusing the intelligible with the fixed. We think that making sense out of life is impossible…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their…

— Eugène Ionesco

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his…

— Andrew Dickson White