Adjusting Quotes - Page 4

• The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

  Bruce Lee

  Time, Trying, Schedules

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.

  Kim Edwards

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.258, Penguin

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• Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Science, Environmental, Groups

  Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”

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• People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

  Alice Bailey

  Wise, Honesty, Reality

  Alice Bailey (1934). “A Treatise on White Magic: Or, The Way of the Disciple”, Lucis Pub

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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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• 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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• I think they’re having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Teenager, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484

  Dan Brown

  Heart, Mean, Angel

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• The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

  Jose Saramago

  Confused, Reality, People

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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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• 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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• One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Impact, Media, Knowing

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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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• It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

  Julian Robertson

  Inheritance, Helping, Wealth

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• The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.

  Matt Chandler

  Spiritual, Doubt, Messages

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Humble, Firsts

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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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• Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Pain, Way, Faces

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• Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Order, Quality, Path

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.

  B. J. Palmer

  Quality, Causes, Chiropractic

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• Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Art, Disease, Embrace

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• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  Bill Withers

  Summer, Nice, Blow

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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