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«First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.»
«There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.»
«I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.»
«Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.»
«Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.»
Author: Tom Peters | Keywords: adjust
«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.»
Author: William Frederick Book | Keywords: adjust
«The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.»
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
«Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | Keywords: adjust, Moral code
«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.»

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