Fixated On As An Idea Quotes & Sayings

Several years ago, Debashish Chatterjee, a good friend and well-known author on leadership1 opened a seminar on leadership at MIT by saying, 'I've been guided in my work by the notion that older is often better. If an idea has been around for a few thousand years, it's been submitted to many tests - which is a good indicator that it might have some real merit. We're fixated on newness, which often misleads us into elevating novelty over substance. — Peter M. Senge

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. — Rudy Rucker

To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly. — Frederick Lenz

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. — Christopher Plummer

Every where the greater joy is ushered in by the greater pain. — Augustine Of Hippo

Today they may not even be able to experiment with such technologies if their in-house computer systems are restricted by their IT departments. — John Palfrey

I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can't do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR at 27. I can't vomit from drinking at 26. I just can't! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We're obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It's kind of sad actually because I don't think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We're so concerned about doing things "the right way" that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young. — Ryan O'Connell

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you. — Salman Rushdie

I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking. — Edward Norton

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for. — Vernor Vinge

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea. — Josh Homme

I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday. — Ellie Goulding

Take time to laugh, to talk, to hug, and to cry. These are the human relief valves. — Richelle E. Goodrich