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Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. -- Dolly Parton
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
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. -- Ayn Rand
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
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness. -- Richard Simmons
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. -- Robert Wyatt
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. -- Martin Gardner
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. -- Verne Troyer
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. -- Willie Mays
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. -- Muhammad Iqbal
By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them. -- Lisa Edelstein
I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf. -- Greg Norman
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent. -- Kenneth H. Cooper
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program. -- Fred Brooks
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. -- E. F. Schumacher
In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments. -- B. J. Palmer
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. -- Dolly Parton
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. -- Jennifer Egan
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. -- Ilka Chase
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. -- Brian Ferneyhough
Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic. -- Abbi Glines
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light. -- Nick Gordon
Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life. -- Rhonda Byrne
Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance. -- Seth Godin
The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation. -- Matt Chandler
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. -- Dana Hill
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children. -- Hanna Rosin
Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal. -- Aunjanue Ellis
Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now. -- Felix Hernandez
One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start. -- Simon Mainwaring
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing. -- River Phoenix
Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach. -- Paul Tonko
DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of the video stream accordingly. -- Alfred Amoroso
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
In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. -- Carl Honore
As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job. -- Henry Selick
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. -- George Allen, Sr.
Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes. -- James Gleick
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? -- Eric Topol
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia. -- Daniel Goleman
Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty. -- Phyllis Diller
There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause. -- Daniel D. Palmer
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. -- Elias Canetti
By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint. -- Bob Deutsch
Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting. -- Sarah Dessen
Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal. -- Aunjanue Ellis
I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. -- Patricia Briggs
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. -- George Eliot
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role. -- Anna Ford
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan. -- Marianne Moore
Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484 -- Dan Brown
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others. -- Henry Ford
Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ. -- Brian Houston
To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing. -- Shunryu Suzuki
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God. -- Radhanath Swami
Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton. -- Daniel D. Palmer
My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles. -- Evangeline Lilly
Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting. -- Lauren Oliver
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. -- Napoleon Hill
As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this. -- Robert James Thomson
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation. -- Joel Garreau
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life. -- Walter Darby Bannard
If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well. -- Cass Sunstein
Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations. -- Albert Speer
I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal. -- Taryn Manning
Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior. -- David Cottrell
The moment is freedom. â?? I couldnâ??t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them. -- Bruce Lee
To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease. -- Daniel D. Palmer
She doesn't play nice with others Sadi huffed out. So I'm in the process of adjusting her attitudeAnd I'm in the process of getting ready to cut out your heart, bitch -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be. -- Bergen Evans
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. Â?By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%. -- Janet Yellen
That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry. -- Simon Critchley
The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are -very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change. -- Kathleen Blanco
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable. -- Sonia Johnson
Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment -- Nido R Qubein
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time. -- David Maraniss
I think they're having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand. -- Joseph Salerno
I'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our primary competitors across the board. They're adjusting to this new world, like we are. -- Jamie Dimon

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