Top 100 Quotes About Adjustment
#1. The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.
Elbert Hubbard
#2. I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.
Paul Dano
#3. Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
Alfred North Whitehead
#6. I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that's easy or not easy ... but that's a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don't run evenly.
Michael Kadoorie
#7. But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
Feist
#8. The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#9. A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#10. The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H.P. Lovecraft
#11. America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
Charles M. Blow
#12. Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
Rebecca West
#13. 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
#14. If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy ... a banana republic.
Paul Keating
#15. A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.
Geoffrey Wood
#16. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000).
Rachel E. Goldsmith
#18. Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
Mark Dayton
#19. I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.
Diane Lane
#20. Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.
Jeanne Phillips
#22. Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
Bergen Evans
#23. What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.
Ron Glass
#24. Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
Richard Whately
#25. It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.
Brandon Jacobs
#26. 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
#27. The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.
Andy Van Slyke
#28. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
Ron Suskind
#29. Continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.
Germaine Greer
#30. I can't change what happened, but I can sure as shit get pissed that you want to cut me off because of it. You laid out your rules and I adjusted to accommodate them, but you won't make even a tiny adjustment for me. You have to meet me halfway.
Sylvia Day
#31. Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.
Learned Hand
#32. Life takes constant adjustment and growth. Don't get settled in or it will surprise you and not in a good way.
Jean Williams
#33. Whatever you think your shortcomings are ... you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#34. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.
Thomas Merton
#35. Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#36. Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti
#37. In psychiatry, Doctor -unlike, perhaps, the world of sexually transmitted disease clinics- there is no such thing as a cure. There is only adjustment.
Neil Gaiman
#38. Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#39. 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 that a moment is hilarious.
Tom Hiddleston
#40. Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R.D. Laing
#41. His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment. He had always known how to make himself invisible.
Christopher Fowler
#42. Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
#43. Pity Matt didn't help him through a window instead of over a sofa," she grumbled. "He needs an attitude adjustment.
Diana Palmer
#44. Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;
Kent Beck
#45. Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.
Don DeLillo
#46. A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.
Joan Didion
#47. It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.
Greg Rusedski
#48. 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
#49. Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
#50. 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
#51. clients. They're always there. You do have to worry, and look at the practice you've built. Give me a rundown on today's list." Casey could count on Brianna to boost her morale. "Two phobias, the low self-esteem, three adjustment disorders, and one panic attack.
Barbara Delinsky
#52. My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.
Johnny Damon
#53. 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
#54. Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#55. I have to have an adjustment before I go into the ring. I do believe in chiropractic. I found that going to a chiropractor three times a week helps my performance. The majority of boxers go to get that edge.
Evander Holyfield
#56. Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had.
George Eliot
#57. Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
Abraham H. Maslow
#58. To Whom It May Concern. A racist Irishman has just made me aware that I am as bigoted as he is. Please excuse me from working with people of different skin colours until I can achieve an attitude adjustment. I do not wish to be a Nazi.
Lynn Viehl
#59. Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?
Kim Harrison
#60. Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.
James Randi
#61. The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E.B. White
#62. 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
#63. Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.
Robert M. Lindner
#64. The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.
Dwyane Wade
#65. If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.
Brian O'Driscoll
#66. There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.
John Steinbeck
#67. A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.
Rollo May
#68. Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton
#69. By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.
George Eliot
#70. Outer conditions do not resolve themselves without some kind of inner
personal adjustment.
Ngina Otiende
#71. Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
Katharine Graham
#72. Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr
#73. In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
Chico Hamilton
#74. As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.
Kerr Smith
#75. Happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Arnold Bennett
#76. The more culturally different or remote the retirement relocation, the longer and more difficult the adjustment will be with the least likelihood of success"
For those planning out-of-country moves to exotic locations
Lee Johnson
#77. One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
Jay Weatherill
#78. The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
Oprah Winfrey
#79. To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
Irving Babbitt
#80. Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.
Madeleine L'Engle
#81. An attitude adjustment from the inside out is what it will take to get you to change direction. The truth is God is on your side, no matter how far you've wandered. He still loves you. He still needs you. Your sins don't define you. He does.
Toni Sorenson
#82. Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.
Alan Barth
#83. We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling. - Eric Hoffer
David Allen
#84. Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.
Jeff Hawkins
#85. That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'.
Dada Bhagwan
#86. We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.
Margaret Atwood
#87. All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
J.G. Holland
#88. The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude
Wallace D. Wattles
#89. As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.
James Agee
#90. The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.
Tony Romo
#91. There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.
Jeb Bush
#92. My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
S.G. Browne
#93. Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.
Juliette Binoche
#94. Only those who are humble can consistently identify evidences of grace in others who need adjustment. It's something the proud and the self-righteous are incapable of.
C.J. Mahaney
#95. 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 upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
Samuel Johnson
#96. Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
#97. I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.
Agnes Martin
#98. I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No mental adjustment could make it less absolute. It was impenetrable - black painted over black painted over black.
Haruki Murakami
#99. Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.
Rickie Fowler
#100. 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 learns from 'what was'.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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