Fixation Quotes

38 quotes by 37 authors

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window.… — Billy Campbell
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In… — Thomas Merton
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from… — David Blaine
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… — Iannis Xenakis
Weâ€™re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that… — Terri Windling
With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it;… — Neville Goddard
Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations. — Zhuge Liang
There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one is, one knows… — Rajneesh
Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life. — Miyamoto Musashi
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded… — Conrad Black
The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be… — Dalai Lama
Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of… — Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or… — Jonah Goldberg
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own… — Eric Hoffer
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. — Momofuku Ando
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited… — William Crookes

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