Small Adjustments Quotes

#1. How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Elaine Scarry

#2. I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions")

Michael Marshall Smith

#3. Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha N. Beck

#4. Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

Jeff Britting

#5. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions.

Robert Martensen

#7. People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

Theresa May

#8. Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.

Hilary Devey

#9. He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.

Walter Moers

#10. Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Allan Lokos

#11. Life is fluid. We are the ghosts of all the people we might become, peering forward to catch a glimpse of what could be, our future selves staring back at us, at who we might have been, never were.

Bernie Mcgill

#12. Save a life, and your path will always have light.

James Patterson

#13. We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person ... so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

Natsuki Takaya

#14. Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Albert Bandura

#15. No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

T. S. Eliot

#16. We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Chris Christie

#17. Noreen didn't speak, and as the minutes passed she seemed to fade into the rummaging breeze and chatter of insects, as if the night itself were alive.

Jennifer Egan

#18. The world is nothing but a moment.

Rumi

#19. Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters ... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

Virginia Johnson

#20. If you don't let a teacher know what level you are
by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance
you will not learn or grow

Stephen R. Covey

#21. For the Christ-follower,small spiritual adjustments make huge eternal differences.

Todd Stocker