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Quotes About Adjustment

We cannot give our students all that they expect, whether by way of the quality of their schooling or by way of the jobs that they were hoping to get. Student frustration is a worldwide phenomenon, pushing our societies into adjusting faster than they are used to.
~ Arthur Lewis
When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.
~ Jeff Lynne
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.
~ Washington Irving
I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
~ Edgar Wright
The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.
~ Sunil Chhetri
When I go to the U.S., the flights are long, and they do affect the body clock, but they are worth it.
~ Sara Davies
Tom Brokaw has been criticized for not being patient enough with me. But, in his defense, he is a news purist, and what he does is absolutely right for him. When we were thrown together, there was the matter of an actress coming in to do the news. I was missing the camera, not reading very well - there was a lot of stuff I had to get used to.
~ Mariette Hartley
I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
~ Raymond Floyd
The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
~ Dwight Schultz
Before pregnancy, I would box, do SoulCycle, and do some pretty intense circuit training in the gym. When I got pregnant, I realized I'd need to tone some of that stuff down and remove some altogether, but was determined to maintain the mental and physical health benefits of exercise.
~ Jedediah Bila
I think the biggest difficulty from transitioning from professional wrestling to the acting world is generally toning down your performance.
~ Wade Barrett
You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
~ Shawn Mendes
When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
~ Ray Davies
A lot of people tell me that on screen you're jumping and bouncing around with joy, but I take too much time to open up in newer surroundings.
~ Kiku Sharda
There are a lot of different things we have in the tool box in every different fight, but depending on the matchup we decide what we are going to take out and kind of play with.
~ Carlos Condit
It's normal in a top club that people change.
~ Petr Cech
It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
~ A. J. Cook
Small changes can make huge destination differences.
~ Sean Covey
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the actions." -Confucius
~ Sean Patrick
I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
~ Sebastian Faulks
You're not used to it, are you?
~ Shamim Sarif
I was like that for the first few months. Then I came back to reality and realized that if I was going to remain sane, I needed to let the poor child out of my arms every now and then. It's working out and we're all much happier.
~ Shannon Guymon
so I told her to go to... someplace less nice
~ Shannon Hale