Fixing Quotes
205 quotes by 190 authors
-
They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting…
— Don King
-
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the…
— Akira Kurosawa
-
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment…
— Warren G. Bennis
-
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
— Jonathan Alter
-
Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if…
— R. Kent Hughes
-
I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that the president doesn't…
— Andrew Sullivan
-
Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
— Tim Harford
-
So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded…
— Will Eno
-
As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.
— Haroon Mirza
-
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
— Andrew Solomon
-
Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management…
— Lou Gerstner
-
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. Â It has nothing to do with fixing things. Â It has nothing to do with…
— Julia Cameron
-
Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y’all’s ass,
— Pat Dye
-
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is…
— Fred Brooks
-
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
— Richard Peck
-
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger…
— Thomas Carper
-
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.
— David Deutsch
-
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
-
Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have…
— Patrick Lencioni
Who Wrote These Fixing Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 205 Fixing Quotes, led by these top contributors: