
Top 32 Trying To Adjust Quotes
#1. We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.
Bruce Wexler
#2. I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm
Phillip Lim
#3. Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya. She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes.
Leslie Cockburn
#4. Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.
Marvin Sapp
#5. I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.
Ken Kesey
#6. It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.
Larry McMurtry
#7. I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
Al Purdy
#8. 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
#9. To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.
Henry Hazlitt
#10. Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.
Frank Turek
#11. The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.
Henry James
#12. When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.
John Reid
#14. I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.
Corey Dillon
#15. We live along the shores of night,
At the edge of the eternal sea.
Jack McDevitt
#16. The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.
Craig Groeschel
#18. When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.
Roshan Sharma
#19. Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you're trying to do, what your value is, why it's important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market's telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?
Steve Case
#20. No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.'
'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?
G.K. Chesterton
#21. Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while refining the legacy of a won galactic war.
Iain M. Banks
#22. It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
Keren Ann
#23. Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#24. While nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.
J. E. Buckrose
#25. Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
William Frederick Book
#26. For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for
Tim Smit
#27. Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary ... We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
Craig Groeschel
#28. The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
John Redwood
#29. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.
Katherine Boo
#30. The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
George Eastman
#31. I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash ... you add a longer tail ... you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.
Erma Bombeck
#32. It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one's hearing to it.
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The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.
Haruki Murakami
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