A Quote by Colin Powell
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
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Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.
People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it.
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