Quotes about fix
A collection of quotes on the topic of fix, doing, use, thing.
Quotes about fix

“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
Variant: Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 244.

Source: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 129

Letter to Doña Juana de Torres (October 2015)

“The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.”
“If you believe that it is possible to break, believe it is also possible to fix.”
אם אתה מאמין שיכולים לקלקל, תאמין שיכולים לתקן Im ata ma'amin sh'ykholim lekalkel, ta'amin sh'yecholim letaken.
Attributed

Source: Diary entry while in Aix (c. 16 August 1824), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), pp. 52-53

“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.

Source: Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!”
Source: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm

Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 297.
Context: Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. When all today's isms have become yesterday's ancient philosophy, there will still be reactionaries and there will still be revolutionaries. No amount of rationalization can avoid the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on the planet. I still believe in the fundamental injustice of the profit system and do not accept the proposition there will be rich and poor for all eternity.

Sojourner Truth, as quoted in The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Concise, p. 50, by Cheryl Glenn. Editorial Cengage Learning, 2011. ISBN 113317146X.

2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)

2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)

Ibid., p. 413<ǃ--Assírio & Alvim, 2008-->
As quoted in Os Grandes Trechos, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 413
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ter opiniões definidas e certas, instintos, paixões e carácter fixo e conhecido — tudo isto monta ao horror de tornar a nossa alma num facto, de a materializar e tornar exterior.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

V, st. 2
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

Vol. II, Ch. VIII, p. 163.
(Buch II) (1893)

1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)

Letter to Clark Ashton Smith (7 November 1930), in Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 214
Non-Fiction, Letters

“The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.”
Time, 1979

Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence (1832), Demonstration of the Rules relating to the Apparent Motion of the Fixed Stars upon account of the Motion of Light.

1860s, First State of the Union address (1861)

Letter to Giovanni Battista Baliani (1639)

The Magi http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1652/
Responsibilities (1914)

Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 1

As quoted in Warrior : The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon (1989)

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

1910s, The World Movement (1910)

Other

Source: 1920s, "Picasso Speaks" (1923), p. 315

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

Extracted from Proverbs Blog https://providencepath.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/jung-myung-seok-develop-fix-and-make-yourself/

First Memoir. On the Moving Force of Heat and the Laws which may be Deduced Therefrom
The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867)

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 117

Die Natur baut keine Maschinen, keine Lokomotiven, Eisenbahnen, electric telegraphs, selfacting mules etc. Sie sind Produkte der menschlichen Industrie; natürliches Material, verwandelt in Organe des menschlichen Willens über die Natur oder seiner Betätigung in der Natur. Sie sind von der menschlichen Hand geschaffene Organe des menschlichen Hirns; vergegenständliche Wissenskraft. Die Entwicklung des capital fixe zeigt an, bis zu welchem Grade das allgemeine gesellschaftliche Wissen, knowledge, zur unmittelbaren Produktivkraft geworden ist und daher die Bedingungen des gesellschaftlichen Lebensprozesses selbst unter die Kontrolle des general intellect gekommen, und ihm gemäß umgeschaffen sind.
(1857/58)
Source: Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 626.

Campaign rally http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/19/remarks-president-campaign-event-fairfax-va, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
2012

Indian contemporary artists have not reached my standard: SH Raza

Quote of Monet, 1859 in a letter to his mentor Eugène Boudin; as cited in: John Rewald (1961) The History of Impressionism - Volume 1. p. 48
1850 - 1870

Variants:
A good traveller has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.
As quoted in In Search of King Solomon's Mines (2003) by Tahir Shah, p. 217
A true traveller has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving.
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 27, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)

Concepts

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 544.

The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, Compiled from His Diaries, Letters, and Records by His Wife and His Private Secretary, 1899, Fleming H. Revell, Vol. 2, (1854-1860), pp. 371-372. http://books.google.com/books?id=t3RAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA371&dq=%22I+saw+this+medal,+bearing+the+venerated+likeness+of+John+Calvin,+I+kissed+it%22&hl=en&ei=JP4LTd-SMcX_lgf0--yzDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20saw%20this%20medal%2C%20bearing%20the%20venerated%20likeness%20of%20John%20Calvin%2C%20I%20kissed%20it%22&f=false