Quotes with adjustment

Quotes 1 till 15 of 15.

  • Adam Clayton Powell Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
    - +
    +2
  • Carrie Chapman Catt In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
    - +
    +1
  • James Allen A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
    - +
     0
  • Benny Green Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.
    Benny Green
    American musician
    - +
     0
  • Eric Hoffer Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Sir Hugh Walpole Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
    - +
     0
  • Herbert Spencer Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
    - +
     0
  • Benazir Bhutto Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Bella Thorne Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
    - +
     0
  • Walter Benjamin The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • E. B. White The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
    - +
     0
  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Feldman When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
    Ben Feldman
    American actor (1980 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ambrose Bierce Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
    - +
    -1
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
    - +
    -1
All adjustment famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com