#adjustment

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#youth #faith

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#masses #much #perception #process #reality

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#adjustment #change #climate #climate change #cost

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. ↗

— E. B. White

#adjustment #age #atom #his #man

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed. ↗

— Benny Green

#any #attitude #eclipsed #examples #get

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#effect #enormous #fact #full #get

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

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

#adjustment #big #big leagues #get #got

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment. ↗

— Diane Lane

#anybody #attitude #away #break #entertainment