Quotes About Adjustment

It just wasn't the right fit at Bournemouth. I wasn't suited to their style.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

We have already had to adjust our understanding of so many theories of planetary motion, and so too we shall gradually learn to recognize that what we call fate

Most people live unprepared for death. But those who are wise will go to a reliable source to investigate what's on the other side. And if they discover that the choices they make during their brief stay in this world will matter in the world to come, they'll want to adjust those choices accordingly.

We were not rich, but my parents had adjusted their lifestyle to their incomes—and in the end that is a big part of the battle.

You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying.

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty (snobbish, high-minded, exclusive), but readily adjust yourself to [people, things] and give yourselves to humble tasks.

Power Thought: God has given me the ability to adjust to people and things and remain in peace.

Y que si yo escuchaba solamente el silencio, era porque aún no estaba acostumbrado al silencio; tal vez porque mi cabeza venía llena de ruidos y de voces.

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.

When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Wenn schlechte Dinge zur Gewohnheit werden, muss man die Verhältnisse ändern.

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them. Montaigne, Of Presumption (1580)

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place.

A large, nationally representative study published in the journal Pediatrics showed that children aged ten to fifteen who play video games on any platform for an hour or less a day demonstrate better psychosocial adjustment compared with no play, whereas the opposite was true for those engaging in more than three hours of daily play.

Self-esteem adapts to any environment.

The branch breaks that will not bend with the wind. You must learn to bend".