Quick Fix Quotes

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

… much like the cure-all theory of patent medicine.

All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?

I blinked and I cured my brain.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.

There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

That's the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that's not going to happen.

I knew marriage was not the answer to changing the conditions for poor, black, queer folks. So I never felt compelled to get married - it just didn't seem important. But even if marriage wasn't right for me at the time, or a quick fix toward black empowerment, I found it repulsive that loving same-sex couples were refused the right.

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

A quick cure is a quack cure.

Two of my favourite products for a quick-fix are lipstick and mascara. I think with lipstick, brighter is better.

A short horse is soone currid.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board