Adjusting Quotes - Page 2

• Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

  Brad Warner

  Disappointment, Reality, Discovery

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

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• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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• Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Life, Family, Mom

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• We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

  Donald M. Nelson

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Patient, Trajectory, Do The Best

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.109, B&H Publishing Group

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• Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Storm, Sometimes

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter One, September 12, 2002.

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• Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.

  Les Brown

  Strong, Worry, Energy

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• 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

  Running, Children, Wind

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.85, Open Road Media

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• We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

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• There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Perseverance, Art, Achievement

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• She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Perception, Facts

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are - very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Reality, Challenges, Citizens

  "New Orleans Recovery Efforts". Interview with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. November 22, 2005.

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• The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand.

  Joseph Salerno

  Demand, Purchasing Power, Performing

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• The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Liberty, Cogs

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• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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• But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Strong, Secret, Survival

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Hate, Night

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• If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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• The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.

  Archie Manning

  Jobs, Thinking, New Orleans

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• Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

  Seth Godin

  Today, Chance, Starting

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.41, Penguin

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• Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Jealous, Ashes

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• Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Thinking, People, Personality

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

  Lauren Oliver

  Borders, Boundaries, Process

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