Adjustment Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Country, New York, Boys

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• A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'

  Jeff Francoeur

  Games, People, Littles

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• 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

  Art, Attitude, Spring

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• It's just a matter of, for me, getting my mind where it needs to be. Certainly I've made a lot of adjustments in my life, and I've gone through a lot. A lot.

  Tiger Woods

  Mind, Needs, Gone

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• 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

  Mother, Support, Trying

  S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.17, Three Rivers Press

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• You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Fall, Men

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• [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Merciful

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.209, Hamilton Books

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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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• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Intelligent, Interesting

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

  Michael Schenker

  Made, Stage, Enjoyable

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• 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

  Baby, Support, Littles

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• Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

  Tony Romo

  Years, Games, Firsts

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• Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Country, Tailors, Used

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• Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Goal, Age, Weapons

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 65, 1954.

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• I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

  Stu Jackson

  Technology, Player, Nba

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

  Mario Andretti

  Animal, Car, Racing

  "Formula 1's U.S. Fan Base 'Understated,' Andretti Says". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 19, 2012.

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• All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Perfect, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.161, Transaction Publishers

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• It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

  Learned Hand

  Issues, Impact, Judging

  "The Bill Of Rights". Book by Learned Hand, p. 72, 1958.

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• The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

  Jane Addams

  Book, Men, Preparation

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• Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Ideas, Suffering

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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• To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

  Jane Addams

  Pride, Self, Effort

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.6, University of Illinois Press

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