Quotes About Adjustment

Isn't that what you say in America? Just go with the flow.…" Roy laughed again, loud enough for the people at the next table to turn around. Only the magic was gone out of it now; it sounded hollow, as if it were traveling across a vast, empty distance.

The day comes, they hand you a new rule book.

mutatis mutandis

We could go a long way toward improving the experienced well-being of people in our society if we could find a way to stop the process of adaptation.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

Once things were different, but now they're the same. He reckons he can live with that; for a guy like him, the rule of thumb is just SSDD, and so fucking what. You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

sometimes the smallest addition makes all the difference.

Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises or frustrates you, learn from it and try something different.

The Enlightenment thus translated the ultimate question 'How can I be saved?' into the pragmatic 'How can I be happy?'—thereby heralding a new praxis of personal and social adjustment.

people adapt to their circumstances, good or bad, the way their eyes adapt to sun or darkness. From that neutral point, improvement is happiness, loss is misery.

when things change without a human agent directing the change, they are likely to change for the worse.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

What the bloody motherfucking hell happens now? I checked my watch, the white-gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Jen had bought me for my thirtieth birthday. I'd been fine with the Citizen I wore, missed it, actually, when she gave me this bulky piece of showy hardware, but things like that were important to Jen. She'd taken to the suburbs like an actress getting into character for a new role, and she was always determined that we both look the part.

I seem to recall having had edgier taste in music, but I suppose that's just one more adjustment I'll have to make to my compromised memories.

You see the people you love the way they are in your head, but every once in a while you accidentally catch a glimpse of them in real time, and in those split seconds, as your brain scrambles to adjust to the new reality, small things inside you swerve off the road and drive over cliffs, spinning and screaming all the way down.

Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn." That is the voice of authenticity.

Circumstances change, and so can you. Positive feedback loops, adding effect to effect, can spiral counterproductively in a negative direction, but can also work to get you ahead.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

Como dijo Gustav Schmoller, «la revolución puede evitarse siempre con las reformas oportunas».

It happens to everyone and it happens fast.

Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.

You don't like me the same way I like you. I'll get over it. I'm just disappointed you're not the cat I thought you were.