Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid
In opposition, there's not much one can do. One doesn't have the carrot and one doesn't have the stick. One can't promote and one can't fire. And persuasion has its limits.
I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
