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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
Good
Arriving
Fixed
Intent
Plans
Traveler
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
Generation
Words
Language
Free
Creation
Interpretation
Laws
Varied
Involves
Principles
Fixed
Infinitely
Process
Which
Manner
Use
Used
Even
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah
Life
Broken
You
Worth
Will
Mountains
Sweet
Punch
Valleys
Worth It
Hopefully
See
Higher
Take
Feel
Know
How
Up
Times
Hit
Than
Fixed
Get
Again
Canvas
Then
Really
Deep
Even
Things
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
Saul Alinsky
Truth
Truth Is
People
Opportunity
Power
Own
Control
Conviction
Destinies
Only
Generally
Freely
Reach
Fixed
Decisions
Act
Belief
Right
Right Decisions
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson
Politics
Religion
Word
Matters
Nationalism
Petty
Other
Our
High
Citizens
Constitutional
Shall
Force
Opinion
Fixed
Confess
Official
Any
Act
Star
Prescribe
Orthodox
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.
Abbie Hoffman
Ideology
Revolution
Embedded
Spirit
Something
Particular
Perpetual
Nor
Decade
Fixed
Human
Process
Human Spirit
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
Truth
Truth Is
Outside
Fixed
Patterns
Incapable
Adaptability
Set
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen
Man
First
Principles
Am
Times
Fixed
Which
Flexible
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson
Other
Marks
Border
Unreal
Rival
Between
Real
Fixed
Just
Where
Place
Gangs
Standstill
Each
Fought
Last
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
Gary Zukav
Love
You
Matter
Will
Thought
Feeling
Unlovable
Outsider
Idea
Always
How
How Much
Frightening
Fixed
Want
Wanting
Loved
Cannot
Loving
To Love
Capable
Flawed
Much
Inmost
Belong
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Strength
Great
You
Perseverance
Determination
Impossible
Few
Despair
Diligence
Counsel
Performed
Fixed
Few Things
Skill
Your
Works
Things
People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.
Travis Bradberry
Challenges
People
Opportunities
Believe
Mindset
Those
Embrace
Something
Something New
New
Learn
Because
Effort
Fixed
Improve
Them
Lower
Even
Growth
Treating
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Judith Butler
Constructed
Masculine
Feminine
Fixed
Roles
Socially
Biologically
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
Man
Science
Every
Universe
Those
System
Only
He
Make
Principles
Governed
Discover
Fixed
Cannot
Which
Them
Basis
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
David Hackworth
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Consider
Moral
Corrupt
Take
Until
Policy
Sound
Off
Up
Fixed
Personally
Shut
Shut Up
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden
Great
Sometimes
Great Things
Impossible
Aim
Gaze
High
Seemed
Had
Goal
Accomplished
Fixed
Which
Who
Things
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe
Strange
Our
Paradox
Haunting
Only
Perhaps
Fixed
America
Movement
Certain
Here
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.
Travis Bradberry
You
Change
Problems
Hopeless
Believe
Mindset
More
Feel
Bound
Make
Because
Handle
Overwhelmed
Than
Fixed
Anything
Cannot
Creates
Who
Appears
Challenged
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow
Day
Bad
Nap
Fixed
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
Will
Before
Down
Right Road
Eye
Find
Horizon
Only
Never
He
Step
Road
Taking
Look
Test
His
Fixed
Far
Next
Your
Next Step
Ground
Who
Keeps
Right
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman
Time
Great
Law
Beginning
Stationary
Great Idea
Chariot
Idea
Within
How
Conditions
Fixed
Wheel
Regardless
Place
Which
Us
Binds
Ever
If you rent, the rent goes up every year. But if you buy a 30-year mortgage, the cost is fixed.
John Paulson
Buy
You
Year
Every
Cost
Mortgage
Rent
Up
Fixed
Goes
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman
Party
Assume
One Party
Only
Economic
Tendency
Pie
Most
Another
Fixed
Expense
Gain
Derive
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald Dahl
Life
Simple
Thinking
Follow
Simple Life
Could
Had
Hours
How
Salary
Began
Very
Fixed
Little
Realize
Regular
Original
Routine
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
Tony Evans
Government
You
Racism
Problem
Three
First
Skin
Believe
Hundred
Hundred Years
See
Federal
Federal Government
Take
Sin
Involvement
Court
Still
Years
Foremost
Fixed
Get
Decisions
Marches
Right
Slavery
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller
Life
Man
Commitment
Approaches
Say
More
Point
Emotion
He
Concentration
Call
His
Tragedy
Fixed
Intense
Closer
Fanaticism
Which
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