Fixating On Things Quotes

#1. Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.

Monks Of New Skete

#2. When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time.

Marie Helvin

#3. We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

Joel Greenblatt

#4. Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's ... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#6. I think that's what Reverend Simmons would call fixating on the speck in your neighbor's eye while ignoring the fucking plank in your own." "Reverend

Nicole Williams

#7. If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Martha Beck

#8. Failing well - that is, staying calm through adversity and recognizing what can be learned from mistakes - is a foundation of success in a variety of fields.

Todd Rose

#9. Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Stephen Jay Gould

#10. She was in a free fall now. And it wasn't killing her. In fact, she was beginning to wonder if she might've had it backwards. All that fixating on the fall...maybe she should've been paying more attention to the free.

Gayle Forman

#11. In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Paulo Freire

#12. Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

Elizabeth Lesser

#13. I've been calling you mine. Before I'd gotten to know you, I knew I had to make you mine. It only got worse the closer we got. When Cole carried you away from me that day, I realised you weren't mine at all. I. AM. YOURS.

Kimberly Lauren

#14. Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

#15. Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust.

Ryan North

#16. In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. The Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

Dorothy Richardson

#18. While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#19. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

Cary Grant

#21. If a book isn't at least somewhat polarizing, it didn't say anything of value.
[Blog entry - November 1, 2014]

Ilona Andrews

#22. If you're a monster, I'm a monster.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have - time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning - I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

#24. There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Cassandra Clare

#25. Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

David Heinemeier Hansson