Adjustment Quotes - Page 8

• I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, States

  "The Wisdom of Patti Smith" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 30, 2013.

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• Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Reality, Relation

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.24, VM eBooks

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• Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

  Matt Taibbi

  Minorities, Bills, Amendments

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.20, Black Cat

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• Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, People, Meg

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

  Daniel Dennett

  Elements, Loyal, Facts

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.255, Penguin UK

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• The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Looks, Great Gatsby Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.537, e-artnow

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• Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Reality, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Alex, Add it up. No matter how much you want her in your life, she doesn’t belong. A triangle can’t fit into a square. Just pointing out the facts” "“Gracias” I don’t point out that if it’s a big enough square, a small triangle can fit inside perfectly. All you have to do is make a few adjustments.

  Simone Elkeles

  Squares, Add, Alex

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?

  Kim Harrison

  Existence

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• We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

  R. D. Laing

  Civilization, Driven, Destruction

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• You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy most of the profitability of the two franchises. That must get down to the peculiarities of individual adjustment to market capitalism. I think you 'd have to know the people involved to fully understand what was happening.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Two, People

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• John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

  Theodore Bikel

  Character, Directors, Doe

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• The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

  Ralph Linton

  Technology, Political, Development

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• In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

  Carl Levin

  Long, Needs, Social

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• I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

  Mariano Rivera

  Feet, Boxes, Plates

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• Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

  Scott Walker

  Couple, Use, Unions

  "Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union-Busting Bill in Wisconsin" by Mary Bottari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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• Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

  Jim Evans

  Reading, Umpires, Play

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• Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Guarantees That, Males

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• You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.

  Ed Helms

  Stupid, Hero, Character

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

  Redman

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

  Orel Hershiser

  Baseball, Games, Should

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• Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Thinking, Order

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• Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.

  Joel Miller

  Reality, Thinking, Oil

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