(923 quotes found)
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Dolly Parton
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Confucius
“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
Alexander Hamilton
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
Charles Darwin
“No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.”
Yao Ming
“Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”
Tom Peters
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
“The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take”
Kofi Annan
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
Jean Kerr
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