#fixing

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#family

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

— Simone Veil

#beautiful #fixing #his #poet #produces

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fixing-things #life #life-and-living #living-life #moving-on

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

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#chance #defect #fixing #fundamental #fundamental problem

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous. ↗

— Shaun White

#city #dad #fixing #glamorous #mom

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

— Ron Wyden

#coin #economy #fixing #health #health care

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

#band #bigger #broken #citizens #class

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value. ↗

— Phil Condit

#company #eliminating #enhance #entire #expanding

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

#blueprint #crisis #financial #fixing #global

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer. ↗

— Kent McCord

#bought #busy #children #cynthia #fixing