Quotes with adjust

  • There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
  • A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
  • I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
    Jimmy Dean
    American country music singer, actor, and businessman (1928 - 2010)
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  • Anna Lindh This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
    First Inaugural Address (1861)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • William Frederick Book Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Will Durant Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bruce Lipton The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • C. M. Ward There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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  • Joseph Chilton Pearce We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Carrie Fisher You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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