Maintenance Mechanic Quotes & Sayings

Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves. — Albert Williams

Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person. If you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering. Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not that hard. When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method. — Robert M. Pirsig

On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment. You're always being fooled, you're always making mistakes, and a mechanic who has a big ego to defend is at a terrific disadvantage. If you know enough mechanics to think of them as a group, and your observations coincide with mine, I think you'll agree that mechanics tend to be rather modest and quiet. There are exceptions, but generally if they're not quiet and modest at first, the works seems to make them that way. And skeptical. Attentive, but skeptical. But not egotistic. There's no way to bullshit your way into looking good on a mechanical repair job, except with someone who doesn't know what you're doing. — Robert M. Pirsig

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. — John Cassavetes

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. — Mariella Frostrup

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic. — Liz Vassey

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk. — Julia Cameron

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek. — Edith Hamilton

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness. — Patrick Leahy

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. — L. Neil Smith

People were like machines. They broke down. They rattled. They could burn you or maim you if you weren't careful. Her job was not only to figure out why this happened and who was to blame, but also to listen for the signs of it coming. Being sheriff, like being a mechanic, was as much the fine art of preventive maintenance as it was the cleaning up after a breakdown. — Hugh Howey

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. — Johann Sigurjonsson

Never do anything that isn't play. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

You can reduce your anxiety somewhat by facing the fact that there isn't a mechanic alive who doesn't louse up a job once in a while. The main difference between you and the commercial mechanics is that when they do it you don't hear about it - just pay for it, in additional costs prorated through all your bills. When you make the mistakes yourself, you at least get the benefit of some education. — Robert M. Pirsig

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. — Jonathan Safran Foer

In order to be big, you have to think big.
If you think small, you're going to be small. — Emeril Lagasse

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. — Isaac Watts

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. — Bill Watterson