Little Adjustment Quotes

#1. Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. Instead of imposing your will on every situation ... focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.

Wynton Marsalis

#3. My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Yanni

#4. Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.

Meg Wolitzer

#5. There are days that I get neurotic with the violin. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced.

Joshua Bell

#6. Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

Zooey Deschanel

#7. Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

Roger Lancelyn Green

#8. God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

Anthony Liccione

#9. If you want something, go get it. Period!" -Chris Gardner (portrayed by Will Smith) in 'The Pursuit of Happyness.

Christopher Nilsson

#10. We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

Orville Wright

#11. What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.

Peter Shaffer

#12. Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith and one's a whitesmith, one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.

Charles Dickens

#13. Chivalry!
why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection
the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant
Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

Walter Scott

#14. Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Oliver E. Williamson

#15. Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

Eli Roth

#16. Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.

Wynonna Judd

#17. At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.

Michael Meade

#18. Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

David Quammen

#19. One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#20. As the morning wore on, she was grateful

Linda Howard

#21. Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

#22. He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death. - Corsican proverb

Daniel Silva

#23. I will have you know there is probably less pineapple at your average luau than in my system at this moment

Qwen Salsbury

#24. After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I've found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too.

Holly Madison

#25. Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.

Charles Babbage

#26. I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

Redman