Quotes About Adjustment

A minimal error at the start leads to a wide divergence in the distance

People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Conséquence : il y avait, en 1919, une civilisation européenne, avec pour variante une culture américaine. Il y a, en 2017, une civilisation américaine, dont les cultures européennes semblent, avec toute leur diversité, au mieux, des variables d'ajustement, au pire, des réserves indigènes.

We have seen that in order to be powerful we have to submit to the laws of the universal forces, and to realise in practice that they are our own. So, in order to be happy, we have to submit our individual will to the sovereignty of the universal will, and to feel in truth that it is our own will. When we reach that state wherein the adjustment of the finite in us to the infinite is made perfect, then pain itself becomes a valuable asset.

for centuries new experiments have been made and adjustments carried out.

But in India, our difficulties being internal, our history has been the history of continual social adjustment and not that of organized power for defence and aggression.

She made the best of what she could not change - which required her to make the worst of what she could not have.

Nessas linhas — que segundo o meu vizinho ele recordava até hoje — o tradutor afirma que uma frase nasce para este mundo nem boa, nem ruim, e que estabelecer sua natureza depende dos ajustes mais sutis possíveis, um processo intuitivo em que o exagero e a força são fatais.

the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

I was eager to find a new form that was less confrontational," says Cusk. "There's not that much difference for me as a writer. It's just adjusting the frame.

As we change our systems of voting, there will always be an adjustment period and any adjustments require robust educational campaigns.

Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it.

It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

Living in Korea was a big adjustment because a coffee is going to be a little more pricey than what it is in the States. Wages aren't as high either.

Adjust to your surroundings, because the world don't wait for you.

There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

Changing a habit or routine doesn't happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time and may take easing into the change to make it work for you. Waking up earlier is no exception.