Quotes About Adjustment

if the money devoted to U.S. border enforcement were instead channeled into structural adjustment in Mexico, as was done by the EU for Spain, unauthorized migration would likely disappear as a significant demographic and political issue in North America.

There are good trading systems out there, but they have to be monitored and adjusted using individual judgment. You have to stay on the ball—you cannot abdicate responsibility for your success to a mechanical system.

they would just have to make the best of the situation. When there were things that you could not change, then there was a strong case for accepting things as they were and working from there.

Teams bring together a broader mix of skills that exceed those of any single individual. 2. Teams jointly develop and strive toward clear goals. 3. Teams can adjust with greater speed and effectiveness. 4. Trust and confidence are more easily built in teams.

Civic participation depends on creativity, an (aesthetic) knack for reframing experience, and on a corollary freedom to adjust laws and practices in light of ever-new challenges. Without art, citizenship would shrink to compliance, as if society were a closed text. Reading lessons would stop at the factual "what is," rather than continue to the speculative "what if.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

there are certain tragedies from which we never recover. We may eventually adjust to the sense of loss that pervades every waking hour of the day. We may accept the desperate sadness that colors all perception. We may even learn to live with the loss. But it doesn't mean we will ever fully cauterize the wound or shut away the pain in some steel-tight box and consider it vanquished.

Engaged in a new form of serfdom---only bound now to banks and mortgage lenders instead of to lords---her more highly leveraged neighbors pore over the business section of the newspaper each day looking for some sign that the government will soon step in to "freeze" their mortgage rates where they are before a scheduled adjustment hits.

Each algorithm is a feedback loop, taking an action, observing the resulting conditions, and taking another action after that. Again, and again, and again. It's an iterative process, in which the algorithms adjust themselves and their activity on every loop, responding less to the news on the ground than to one another. Such systems go out of control because the feedback of their own activity has become louder than the original signal.

Don't try to change others; change yourself for betterment.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.