A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.
If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness. ' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.
Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.
There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.
There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find actors to come and do exactly that thing, then you're not gonna be working with that actor's own set of internal impulses and who they are, so the best work is always a coming together of the actor and the character.
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)
Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why!
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.