Quotes about adjusting (16 Quotes)


    The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

    It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

    Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.


    Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.


    One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.


    It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.


    I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.

    There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.


    Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJs 'Great Society') and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers 5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 more than the total price tag for defeating both Germany and Japan in World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Many believe that Welfare has destroyed millions of families and cost a huge portion of our national wealth in the process.



    It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.



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