Quotes About Fixing Yourself

#1. Well, The Rock says this, you should be concerned with fixing yourself a nice, tall glass of shut-up juice!

Dwayne Johnson

#2. If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

Brad Wenstrup

#4. The kitchen window groaned open, and Jimi shouted out, "Blue! Your boys are out front, looking like they're fixing to bury a body."
Again? Blue thought.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. I'm fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.

Peter Cameron

#6. As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

Melissa Marr

#7. You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Simone Elkeles

#8. The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

Evelyn Underhill

#9. Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

Alexandra Stoddard

#11. I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

Louis Sachar

#12. Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.

John Robert Go

#13. It seemed to me that some things were ugly enough that fixing them was worth trespassing.

Brenna Yovanoff

#14. Whether stuck in traffic because of construction or fixing a flat tire after hitting a pothole, Michiganders feel frustrated with the quality of our roads.

Kerry Bentivolio

#15. 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 companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

Thomas Carper

#16. When fixing problems, always do the least you can.

Steve Krug

#17. I couldn't be bothered to deal with fixing things. I preferred to wallow in the problem, dream of better days.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#18. If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs ... Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Terry Goodkind

#19. Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Augusten Burroughs

#20. Arin, why are you so transparent? Whenever you worry, you start fixing things. Draining nasty gunk from a hoof is the least of it. I don't know what's worse, watching you do that or knowing how hard it will always be for you to keep yourself to yourself.

Marie Rutkoski

#21. 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.

Deborah Meier

#22. I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.

Sade Andria Zabala

#23. There is really only one true way to progress; fix yourself.

Bryant McGill

#24. Opera and church recitals are options, of course, but they require some initiative and arrangement: tickets and schedules and so forth. I am not good at that; it's rather like fixing a three-course meal for yourself - perhaps even lonelier.

Joseph Brodsky

#25. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing

#26. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#27. She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on Nike once more.
Nike let out a laugh. " Vic is a little bloodthirsty. You'll get used to it.

Jennifer Estep

#28. I like fixing things.

Richard E. Grant

#29. There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

Rahm Emanuel

#30. People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

Dave Barry

#31. Jesus Christ can help us fix anything that needs fixing in our lives.

M. Russell Ballard

#32. Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and unbreakable. And it doesn't need fixing.

Leigh Bardugo

#33. 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

#34. The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

Rick Riordan

#35. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time

Tim Harford

#36. When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

Philippe Falardeau

#37. So much has broken today. So many things, I don't know how to begin fixing them all.

A.G. Howard

#38. Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

George Vecsey

#39. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.

Charlotte Bronte

#40. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.

Holly Bodger

#41. In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose.

G.K. Chesterton

#42. Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.

Balan Gothandaraman

#43. You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't explain it, but since I've met you, I've felt a connection to you so strong that I can't deny it. I don't want to deny it. So my life isn't my own. It's yours.

S.H. Kolee

#44. Regardless of the country it is practised in, most of hospital medicine is painting over the cracks rather than fixing the wall.

Benjamin Daniels

#45. Fixing a hole is far more effective than trying to hide it. That approach is also less stressful than constantly worrying that attackers may find the vulnerabilities.

Gordon Fyodor Lyon

#46. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Louis C.K.