I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.
Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.
Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
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.
Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.
The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.
I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.
I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.
That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.
If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.
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 two steps forward and one step back.
So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.
Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.
Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down her tools. “You can’t be here. The dissonance—” He interrupted her panicked words. “I need to ask you something important. ” “What could be more important than your life?” She sounded close to tears. “Your life. If you die, I don’t know if I’d stay sane. ” A simple truth.
You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
