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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.»
«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 is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.»
«I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.»
«A good quotation gets out the mental screwdriver and adjusts the setscrew»
«The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.»
«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.»
«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.»
«The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.»