A Quote by Jack Abbott

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Jack Abbott

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Jack Abbott
American - Author
January 21, 1944 - February 10, 2002

There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

Mason Cooley

I think you need to be able to adjust to the required circumstances and adjust your driving style.

Nico Hulkenberg

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

Dan Rather

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Henry Cloud

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Martha Plimpton

When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Henry Cloud

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Just always believe in yourself. "Champions adjust." It's a line I learned from Billie Jean King, and sometimes your dream adjusts. Be willing to adjust with it and see where your opportunities ... sometimes a door closes but a window opens, so just follow your dreams and continue. You never know where it's going to take you.

Venus Williams

If, at the end of the day, you cannot answer 'yes' to the question, 'Did I do everything I could today to achieve my dream?' then you must adjust.

Nick Gehlfuss

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

Karen Joy Fowler

The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.

Charles Koch

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

Jon Gruden

Keep attacking. The whole key is look after the puck and keep attacking. I don't think you adjust your personnel. You adjust your mindset.

Mike Babcock

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

Gautam Gambhir

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