Adjustment Quotes
180 quotes by 164 authors
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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
— Samuel Johnson
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Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or…
— Charles Fort
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Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which…
— Amy Chua
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
— Mario Andretti
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On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will…
— Emma Goldman
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Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big…
— Lindsay Davenport
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As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and…
— Harold Ford, Jr.
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If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
— Eric Hoffer
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I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come…
— Frank B. Kellogg
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
— R. D. Laing
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Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that…
— Mira Nair
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
— John Boyd Orr
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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
— John Boyd Orr
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My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the…
— Arnold Palmer
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a…
— Susan Rice
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