Top 77 Fixing Quotes

Some actors can create characters and leave them at ‘Cut!’, but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it’s about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It’s about education, work, marriage – it’s even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

I am opposed to Obama‘s efforts to destroy the American economy. I’m opposed to Obama’s efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I’m opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We’re still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

I’m starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas ‘Milk and Honey‘ was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in.

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we’ve learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we’ll get a cure by fixing the gene.

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

I really loved animals when I was little – my friend and I had an imaginary vet‘s office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses – fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that’s how good we were.

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.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn’t know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.

I think there’s a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.

The biggest challenges are fixing the problems, to put all the puzzles together.

For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she‘s put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.

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.

I play golf, and then I see working out in the evening as my way of taking care of any aches or pains that need fixing.

I don’t think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don’t think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.

I ran on fixing the roads… I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

If you do write down your passwords, don’t make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

Women’s role in the household has changed since the women’s movement. I don’t know if women’s role outside the household has changed. I mean, are more women mowing lawns and fixing shingles and doing electrical work and plumbing?

Instead of insulting our teachers and tearing down public education, I believe in a Kentucky where we put students and teachers first – and I’ll work to do just that by fixing some of the greatest challenges they face every day.

Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad‘s always dealt cars, and I’ve always been brought up around them. They’re one of the things I’ve always been interested in.

We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways.

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.

I’m a huge NASCAR fan, but I’m not a gearhead. I’ve never been into fixing cars. It’s not because I don’t like it. I would love to know more. It’s just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn’t a mechanic.

Raise hell – big time. I want y’all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there’s a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.

I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room … watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I’m gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

I’m quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they’re looking at may not be the most important things. I’m guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It’s a difficult, and weird, situation.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can’t fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.

Secretary Clinton should be denied access to classified information. Congress must also hold the State Department accountable for fixing the culture of lax handling of classified information.

Every day, children who are U.S. citizens are separated from their families as a result of immigration policies that need fixing.

If wealthy people put both their money and their time into fixing issues, I think we’d have much better results than if the government tried to fix those same issues.

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

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.

Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.

I’ve made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland‘s roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Sometimes in this country, we don’t focus a lot on people’s experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

I like fixing things.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one – NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are ‘procedures in place.’

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.

I had an instamatic wind-on camera and remember buying the flashcubes and fixing on top of the frame. The flash credits were limited so you had to be careful not to waste any.

Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.

I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn’t stop there. It comes from saying you’re dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody.

There are a lot of plans out there for fixing health care.

While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigration system, I also strongly stand for personal freedom.

The Affordable Care Act is not perfect, and I would vote to build on its success while fixing what doesn’t work.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation – not cynicism and combat.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I’ve always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I’ve done. Mainly because I don’t do it well. But it’s like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

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

I don’t write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.

When somebody is describing their job as fixing problems for someone, that usually does not suggest that they’re dealing with their tax returns.

We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it’s fixing their lives. It’s helping. It’s healing. It’s bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.

Stay calm and be quick on fixing a problem, stopping a problem head on is vital to running a team.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

People are always angry at America. They’re absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.