Top 100 Adjust Quotes
#1. Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
37 Signals
#2. Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.
Rian Johnson
#3. I just realized that I'm just going to be who I am. I don't need to adjust how I look for anyone or even for myself. Even if I have a pimple, I'm not going to cover it up with makeup.
Charlyne Yi
#4. Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is ...
Stan Freberg
#5. As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.
Gregory Stock
#6. Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.
Susan Polgar
#7. It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.
Peter Matthiessen
#8. In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.
Hu Jintao
#9. The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.
Bob Proctor
#10. Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#11. When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.
Meg Howrey
#12. Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#13. I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.
Martti Ahtisaari
#14. One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#15. Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.
James Surowiecki
#16. Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
Ernest Bramah
#17. My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
Martha Plimpton
#18. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.
Rebecca Solnit
#20. And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like
yourself. But it takes time.
Jojo Moyes
#21. Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.
Craig Groeschel
#22. People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.
Sandra Brown
#23. Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.
Ian McEwan
#24. The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Henry Miller
#25. The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. 'Adjust everywhere'.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.
Ruth Graham
#27. Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#28. Anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
Carl Jung
#29. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war.'
'Yes, sir.'
'You have a morbid aversion to dying.
Joseph Heller
#30. Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
Gary McCord
#32. You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.
Stephen Curry
#33. Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
Ernie Els
#34. When adjusting your grinder, make sure the grinder is running. This is because the grinding burrs need to move closer for a finer grind. Since coffee is actually a very hard material, if you adjust it with it off, you can stress the adjustment mechanism and actually damage the machine!
Luca Vincenzo
#35. A good way to adjust to a healthier diet is to think of three meals you enjoy that are largely plant-based. Pasta with tomato sauce can be tweaked to whole-grain pasta with added vegetables.
Michael Greger
#36. You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways
Henry Blackaby
#37. I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.
Marko Burazor
#38. Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability to stop and adjust instantly in the midst of movement - just in case you initiate a wrong move!
J. Barnes
#39. Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.
Daniel D. Palmer
#40. She knew she could kill him in a variety of gory ways in less time than it took him to adjust the strange spectoculums that rested on the very end of his nose, but even this distraction didn't seem to help!
Stuart Hill
#41. She opens her eyes slowly. It takes her a moment to adjust to the bright kitchen light, shining in her eyes. "Can we rearrange the furniture this weekend?" she asks sleepily. "So when I sleep out here, you don't shine all of Satan's fiery hell lights in my eyes first thing in the morning?
Lisa McMann
#42. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.
Andrew Weil
#43. It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.
Olivia Wilde
#44. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to ... It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.
David Levithan
#45. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.
Barbara Ascher
#46. He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him. His heart worked in strange rhythms, as if it were struggling to adjust to a brand new metronome. What was happening to him?
Lisa Kleypas
#47. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
#48. I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.
Nicole Beharie
#49. Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.
Tina Fey
#50. The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.
Carlos Montezuma
#51. Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver's seat.
James Hillman
#52. Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.
Jen Hatmaker
#53. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
#54. If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#55. People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits or because they are slightly drunk.
Daniel Kahneman
#56. The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
Annie Dillard
#57. The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight.
Jorge Cruise
#58. If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.
Ludwig Von Mises
#60. Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
Carlo Ancelotti
#61. We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.
Kevin Kelly
#62. The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.
Misty Copeland
#63. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
Hunter S. Thompson
#64. You didn't have to adjust under the watchful eye of Gabriel Keene." "You're right. I only had to adjust under the watchful eye of Ethan Sullivan. That was an utter cakewalk.
Chloe Neill
#65. Things fucking change, dude! Life changes. Priorities change. Pre-fucking-conceived notions change. You have to adjust and change with them or your ass gets left behind.
K. Bromberg
#66. Syn was braced on one forearm while he rubbed Furi's back with his other hand. Whispering soothingly in his ear, "You feel so good. You're so beautiful." He waited for Furi to adjust as he clenched his abs in determination. He wouldn't move until Furi was ready.
A.E. Via
#67. When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.
Bryant McGill
#68. Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?
Joe Budden
#69. To change your life just accept and adjust. What else can you do?
Debasish Mridha
#70. You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.
John Assaraf
#71. You make the most of your brain's talents if you adjust for the limitations of each system. That means creating the conditions for your deliberate system to function at its best, and recognizing when to slow down and come off autopilot.
Caroline Webb
#72. Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits -- this is how we EAT folks! This is how it's done!
Nancy S. Mure
#73. Over and over, the effects of America's diffusion, and then of its efforts to adjust to that diffusion, seemed to reach the wealthy and advantaged as rewards, but hit the poor and disadvantaged as punishments.
Yuval Levin
#74. God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#75. We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
Daniel Pauly
#76. I think we have to change our thinking and the music industry has to shift and look at how people are acquiring their music now. They want it differently. They're getting it in a different way and you just have to adjust.
Warryn Campbell
#77. I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
Bobby Fischer
#78. Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.
Anna Kay Akana
#79. We are born into our World, educated to adjust to it according to the dominant and accepted norms and pretty much left to sink or swim!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#80. Keith felt huge inside of him, remained still for only a long moment, didn't seem to care about giving Shane time to adjust, just seemed intent on moving. Fucking. Rutting. His
S.E. Jakes
#81. I am pretty relentless about exercise. I love working out and doing cardiovascular workouts. I'm now doing the Whole Life Challenge to discover the unhealthy patterns in my diet and to adjust them to more reasonable levels. And more yoga!
Tim Matheson
#82. Love is a Beautiful Thing that makes us to Adjust ourselves Forcely
Avinash Babu Anand
#84. We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.
Lindsey Graham
#85. If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
Arthur Golden
#86. But when a person's so stuck in their own hole of darkness - it hurts like hell when someone shines a light on them. Your eyes have to adjust, and let's just say it isn't a pleasant experience; it's why people stay there.
Rachel Van Dyken
#87. We have a sign on our cafeteria bulletin board that says: Try Test Adjust Try Again Fail Modify Scrap Start Over
Jack V. Matson
#88. The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.
Jeremy Grantham
#89. If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.
Amy Lane
#90. Los Angeles is a lonely city. Everyone is focused on advancement success fame and money, it is hard to adjust to a culture based on always wanting more, on never being satisfied.
James Frey
#91. It is well known that onset of the disease is affected by lifestyle, yet even when the at-risk subjects were given information about their susceptibility, many did not adjust their fat intake or increase exercise or consult medical specialists to minimize their risk.
Christine Kenneally
#92. The pure products of America
go crazy ...
... [] No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
William Carlos Williams
#93. I mean, it's okay if you're the one with the low sex drive. We'll just have to adjust and learn to accommodate that.
Erin McCarthy
#94. Even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
Brandon Mull
#95. Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.
Shailene Woodley
#96. I guess it's a lot better to initiate change while you can than it is to try to react and adjust to it. Maybe we should move our own Cheese." "What
Spencer Johnson
#97. This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
Anna Lindh
#98. Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.
Julia Cameron
#99. Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.
Debasish Mridha
#100. You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.
Will Ferrell
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