Quotes for All
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, ‘quick-fix’ traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. … Read more
In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can’t force the farm to produce a harvest, you can’t force your seed of potential to grow until … Read more
Look, we’re Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It’s much easier for us to accept a guy with a big white beard hawking his own custom blend of saw palmetto and squirrel dandruff that it is to hear a real doctor telling us to lay … Read more
If fitness came in a bottle,everyone would have a great body. Skip the quick fixes;hard work is what ensures lasting results! Denise Austin
Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It’s not a left-right division. Deborah Meier
The evolution of one’s own soul is a process. It’s not a quick fix. It’s not a five-day workshop. It’s a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence. Debbie Ford
It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. David Byrne
While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won’t help you get healthy in the long run. Daphne Oz
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas Dan Hill
I met my manager when I was in high school and I just started playing guitar. He came from a line of managing incredible artists. He said instead of opting for the quick fix he wanted me to go out and live my life and get some experience under my belt and keep in touch. … Read more