Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even if it broke, it wasn't a failure. If it didn't work, you adjust your thinking. That's what engineers do all the time.

First semester there were some difficulties, of course, but all transfer students have that adjustment period. But after that period, everything went a lot more smoothly. Doing well in class and such. And my age was never an issue.

Farmers can't adjust their prices. The people who sell inputs can adjust their prices to take up the slack. Farmers have adjusted all they can. ... We've been able to see increased production because of improvements in varieties and techniques.

Everything is clicking right now. I was disappointed (early in the season) because I wasn't playing much. It was frustrating. But this is a whole different situation. I had to adjust my game and focus a little more.

There's probably a domino effect from higher fuel prices. We probably will have to wait until we are a little farther into the budget year before we decide whether to adjust it.

There was a little adjustment in defense from Saturday's game. We were more inspired to win today. Whitney shot very well and Jackie had three huge 3-pointers and did well on defense.

There was actually a very short transition period. They adjusted to the college game very quickly, and with four of them we are really going to need to rely on them.

Randy Foye

Sometimes I do wonder why all of this happened, but it must happen for a reason. We'll adjust and stay together. We'll just keep playing hard out there.

Bret Bielema

Sometimes, for young players, the hardest adjustment they have to make is just being accountable for everything they do. They want to make the big play, they want to just get to the ending point rather than working themselves through it. You'll see that a little bit with our new offensive guys. They don't know how hard it is to be a good football player. People just think it happens. It's hard...and it's a process.

Sacrifices by our employees, strong revenue performance and the benefit of our fuel hedging program enabled us to be one of only a couple of major airlines that posted a significant adjusted profit for 2005.

Practice was just about us. We didn't really focus on anything else. We kept it light today and did some shooting and running. We adjusted some things that we needed to work on.

Randall Jarrell

President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.

Sandwich stretched the ice on us. By the time we made the adjustment they had scored twice.

Saturday's game provided a good test for our defense, while offering a challenge to our attackers. Noblesville is a counterattack team built on speed, and our defenders had to constantly adjust to this tactic.

Production seems to have gone into an adjustment after the very strong October-December quarter.

Megan Hilty

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

Our defense is certainly very different from last year. We couldn't do too many things last year, we had a freshman in the cage who wasn't the kind of athlete that Drew is, so we had to adjust what we did defensively. We can do more things now. We can play some different styles because Drew can make the big save.

James Gleick

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

As the data continue to firm and upside risks to inflation build, we believe the MPC will adjust interest rates higher in the New Year,

Raghuram Rajan

As the US deficit continues to be financed easily, the optimists who think there is nothing to worry about are gaining ground over the pessimists who think an abrupt and costly adjustment is likely. But the optimists have to be right every day while the pessimists need to be right only once.

At some point, there will have to be some kind of ticket-price adjustment just to get people back into theaters.

At the beginning of the year, I think we hit our stride pretty well. But getting down the stretch, teams are keying on certain players and that's something you need to adjust to. I think we struggled with that of late, but there's definitely another level we want to get to and I think we're capable of. That's going to have a big impact on how far we go, and we realize that.

Candice Wiggins

At the beginning of the year, having me at the '1' was better for our team, and now our team is better with me at the '2'. It takes awhile to get adjusted to college basketball and we all knew that if Ros could get secure, I wouldn't be (at point guard) all year.

At the beginning it took me a while to adjust to the lights, ... I found it difficult to see the ball and struggled a little on my return of serve. Other than that though, I think I served well and played well on important points.

Jhumpa Lahiri

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

At this meeting the ANC did not get the required 101 votes. The DA maintains that no valid adjustment has been legally passed.

Difficulties of seasonally adjusting the retail sector around year-end suggest that the two-month average -- about flat -- is a more reliable gauge of hiring trends.

(Consistency) was a problem before and now with the new rules. I think it's going to be a bigger problem. You flip the channels on TV and it's a different set of rules in every game. I'm not blaming the referees, but it's hard for players to adjust when there are different sets of rules every night.

Doug didn't put points up immediately when he came. He played fine. He didn't play at the level he was capable of, but he factored in some games. He scored a shootout goal to help us win in Boston. But now in the last four games, he's back to the level of player he was in St. Louis. Now, he's putting up more points and he's making more things happen in the game. Clearly, there was an adjustment period, but he's pretty much through it.

Creighton adjusted pretty well with (Nate) Funk out. They're playing at a pretty high level. It remains to be seen how fast (Northern Iowa) can continue to develop with Crawford not there. Then, the quicker they get him back, the better.

The weather in Baton Rouge hasn't been an issue, ... It's just been the amount of evacuees we've had to adjust to.

This country does not allow itself to be blackmailed. These two multinational companies resist adjusting to our law. Our sovereignty isn't under negotiation.

This could call into question every study ever done with sturgeon ages. I may be able to go back and adjust ages and get true mortality rates for the past 60 years. Because we know how many were harvested each year, we'll be able to know how many die from natural causes every year and how that changes over time.