The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. — Okakura Kakuzo
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great. — Matthew Walker
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better. — Tibor Kalman
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate. — Jocko Willink
I may not be perfect, but I'm trying. — Kristin Davis
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. — Gene Tierney
We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Indian Proverbs
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself. — Anna Freud
I'm so used to doing stuff, as you can imagine, fast and on the go, and just calming down, being patient for me is something I have yet to get used to. — Logan Paul
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. — Teri Garr
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow. — Harrison Ford
Short Trying To Adjust Quotes
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie. — Hyman Rickover
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. — Timothy Fuller
I'm always trying to get my mind at peace. I know I hit my best when everything is chill. — Cliff Floyd
Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory. — Sayings
Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean
That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better. — Ned Vizzini
The important thing is to keep trying — Keiichi Tsuchiya
Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know. — Stephen Schwartz
Trying To Adjust Image Quotes
Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass.
How To Adjust Quotes
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Moraji R. Desai
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Morarji Desai
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that. — Olivia Wilde
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak. — Charles Stanley
I just realized that I'm just going to be who I am. I don't need to adjust how I look for anyone or even for myself. Even if I have a pimple, I'm not going to cover it up with makeup. — Charlyne Yi
Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence. — James Randi
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis? — Hunter S. Thompson
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. — Colin Hay
This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove. — Laurel Clark
We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed. — John Fairclough
Adjust Your Attitude Quotes
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see. — Margaret Atwood
The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner. — Deborah
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around? — Oprah Winfrey
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are. — Wynton Marsalis
Trying To Adapt Quotes
There is nothing wrong with planning and trying to assume control. The way we react when something unexpected happens is where we go off track. — Mo Gawdat
Strive to achieve your goals knowing that the results are impossible to predict. When something unexpected happens, the detachment concept tells us to accept the new direction and try again. — Mo Gawdat
When you are trying to do two things at once, you either can’t or won’t do either well. — Gary Keller
To be yourself in a world that in constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
I never stopped learning and trying new things. You have to be open to change and always be willing to adapt. — Glen Bell
There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself. — Hope Solo
But that is a skill that I’ve tried to, like, kind of… master it. It’s been working so far, so I’m not going to stop. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. — Murray Gell-Mann
You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt. — Michael B. Jordan
Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations. — James Franco
Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game. — Fernando Torres
Adjustment Quotes
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. — Rick Ross
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. — Jane Heard
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team. — Tom Landry
I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. — Erma Bombeck
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust. — Craig Groeschel
You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways — Henry Blackaby
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. — Sun Tzu
Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. — David Steindl-Rast
When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it. — Henry Cloud
The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly. — Ernst Junger
The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them. — Bruce Lee
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
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better. — Robert Rodriguez
But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty. — Nelson Mandela
So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith. — Sue Monk Kidd
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. — Lindsay Davenport
Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat. — James Hillman
I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do. — Bill Cosby
It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts. — Joe Manganiello
The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means. — John Redwood
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. — John Boyd Orr
I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound. — Gerry Beckley
When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down. — 50 Cent
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
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing. — Maria Montessori
You're going to go through times when you don't do too well, or you may have some slumps or get outpitched. Just keep going up there and having your at-bats, keep having your same approach and keep trying to make little adjustments like you do during the season. — Jason Heyward
I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. — Erma Bombeck
I always try to adjust to the situation. — Novak Djokovic
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet. — Roger Bannister
My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school. — Dwayne Johnson
I've tried to divide my time between the US and New Zealand, but it's difficult, and I suddenly realized that I like acting here in Los Angeles anyway. Because when you first come here; especially from New Zealand, you go, This is the ugliest, nastiest, grayest, smoggiest town in the world, and then your scale of beauty adjusts and suddenly you think, Oh, isn't it beautiful, not too much smog today! — Lucy Lawless
I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama. — Rachel Weisz
I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature. — David Brooks
Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny. — Brad Williams
A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to
take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind
of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly. — Rose McGowan
If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed time earlier and earlier so what we'll do is I'll have someone adjust for a week or two by going to be 15 minutes earlier and getting up 15 minutes earlier every night. So that can be a really simple thing. — Shelby Harris
My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I've tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can't control in our lives, whether it's disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change. — Jimmy Carter
Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior. — Frank Turek
Every year I try to make adjustments and learn. — Andruw Jones
I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm — Phillip Lim
...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more. — Brandon Mull
I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some Monty Python. — Brent Sexton
Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work. — David Zayas
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. — Amy Chua
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. — Gus Van Sant
The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it. — Henry Cloud
The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals. — Ashley Wagner
Once you have seen quality horsemanship and are exposed to the things you can do to help a horse be gentle and dependable, then why wouldn't you do those things? No matter what your horse's age, you are going to try to offer him the best that you can. If you adjust what you are doing, he will adjust too; horses have an amazing capacity to make changes. There is always hope. — Buck Brannaman
I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross. — Sam Ewing
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