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

«We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.»

«We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.»

«To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.»

«We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.»

«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»

«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»