Adjusts Quotes

#1. Now, we ain't got nothing to do with God's business, she says, sitting back in her seat. She adjusts herself and straightens her scarf, contenting herself with whatever the day has in store.

Isabel Wilkerson

#2. Rules. Custom. Danger. It's dangerous to be with me."
"It's dangerous to be without you." I nudge closer to the fire.
He reaches out and adjusts my blanket around my shoulders. "That doesn't change the rules, though.

Susan Ee

#3. Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

Sun Tzu

#4. The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

John Kessel

#5. The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

Robert Kirkman

#6. What is destiny more than an end result? If there is such thing as destiny it must change. With every thought we think, every word we utter, every choice we make our destiny adjusts to fit the consequences of that choice.

Eve S. Nicholson

#7. Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Morarji Desai

#8. We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

Charles H. Townes

#9. Fate," Bizzy said, "adjusts quicker 'n a hungery dog can lick a dish.

Jennifer Anne Kogler

#10. Binoculars, adjusts the oxygen hose around his head again. It was just too damn strange, too damn out of the ordinary. No moving vans, no friends stopping by; neither the husband nor the wife - if they

James Patterson

#11. Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.

Gayle Forman

#12. There's no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Alice Sebold

#13. When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Joseph Brodsky

#14. Don't stop at the Ford's because they're at Gerald Flatt's," a short kid says in passing.
"Super dooper!" Granny's dentures clickity-clack. "Don't stomp on the Lord just because it's raining cats." She nods and adjusts her hearing aid. "Those are words to live by, little man!

Jenny B. Jones

#15. To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Willie Stargell

#16. The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

Antoine Lavoisier

#17. Let the government not be an instructor but a parent who loves and adjusts to the needs of the nation, But remember a parent does what makes things look good to the entire family without segregation.

Auliq Ice

#18. Nature is self-renewing as it adjusts to maintain balance. Nature becomes even more vibrant as it yields to allow recycling. It is best to align with success and become nature with your health, wealth, and relationships.

Franklin Gillette

#19. The activity has pumped out his chest and hardened his abs, and I can't believe I'm even noticing or appreciating it. His smile is naughty, the muscles in his shoulders thick and ripped, undulating with his movement when he adjusts his position for me to get an eyeful.

Poppet

#20. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

#21. Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

Toba Beta

#22. Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

Paul Rand

#23. When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.

Mooji

#24. The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#25. A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.

Marc Laidlaw

#26. Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Vanna Bonta

#27. Remember the importance of phrases ... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.

Sara Genn

#28. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

#29. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Edward Sapir

#30. The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Charles Dudley Warner

#31. [A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

James Boswell

#32. I call this building an adaptive organization, one that automatically adjusts its process and performance to current conditions.

Eric Ries

#33. Max is an idiot," Ivy said, struggling to her feet and almost toppling over before Jack caught her. "Slow down, Speed Racer," he said. "You need to move slowly until your body adjusts to its new reality." "And what reality is that?" "The one where you're not super human.

Lily Harper Hart

#34. Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Tim Minchin

#35. So when one adjusts for population size, the availability bias, and historical myopia, it is far from clear that the 20th century was the bloodiest in history. Sweeping that dogma out of the way is the first step in understanding the historical trajectory of war.

Steven Pinker

#36. A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

Confucius

#37. The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

Ernst Junger

#38. As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

Laozi