Adjustment Quotes - Page 14

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

Lucas Papademos

Years, Effort, Gains

"Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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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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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

Block, Rude, Needs

Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.245

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To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

Richard M. Weaver

Expression, Healthy, Becoming

Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.

Sheila Kamerman

World, Adjusting, Way

Sheila B. Kamerman (1980). “Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life”, Free Pr

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The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Fashion, Insecure, Men

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ignorance, Responsibility, Reality

"Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, p. 234, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1969.

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When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

Jennifer Lopez

Thinking, Self, Analyzing

"Jennifer Lopez: The All-Star". Interview with Jane Fonda, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2011.

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I know when I'm off alignment. I know when my body is out of adjustment. If your body is there, then mentally, you'll be there. If your body feels good, then your mind feels good and your are going to feel better about your game.

Barry Bonds

Feel Better, Games, Feel Good

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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

Failure, Important, Achieve

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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

Song, Swans, Tongue

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You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.

Nas

Artist, Guy, Change Is Good

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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