Quotes About Adjustment

What does it take to build something so that it's really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you've made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there? You want to be able to mess around with it and progressively change it to bring it into an adapted state with yourself, your family, the climate, whatever. This kind of adaptation is a continuous process of gradually taking care.

The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was putting things back in place. He could have told them it was no use, though his whole life he'd done the same.

Jeb Bush lost for many reasons, but the basic one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley.

Danger, I realized, was a thing you got used to.

Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?

16.  While heading the profit of my counsel, avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances over and beyond the ordinary rules. 17.  According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans.

War doesn't have a permanent dynamic; a water doesn't have a permanent shape.

already starting to forget what normal life felt like, clocks

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

Nothing's for ever. Everything changes eventually, and it's the people who adapt who survive.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

She breathed, she walked through her house and knew that nothing was ever going to be the same again.

Change always happens... We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

But life had a way of interfering with one's plans. Things popped up unexpectedly, and suddenly a carefully plotted route had to be recalculated.

I came to understand that there is no such thing as a perfect life, just a constant shifting, like the wind on the lake. You adjust your sails to catch the wind, not the other way around.

Successfully orchestrating a lot of little changes lays the foundation for big changes when they are needed.

Shelby's mantra, "Their way of doing things is better than your way of not doing things.

Make as many small, positive changes as you can. Build up that change account. Then, if you negotiate a big change and it goes badly, you will have some resources in the change bank to draw from.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

The ideal for any performer is flexibility. If you have optimal conditions, then it is always great to take your time and go through an extended routine. If things are less organized, then be prepared with a flexible state of mind and a condensed routine.

Abandonar un país era un juego de niños. Un trueque de colores y no de vida. El desarraigo no tenía color, en cambio. A uno le daba igual vivir en cualquier parte y nacer aquí o allá era un accidente. Uno era un camaleón, los países y la gente meros decorados. Tal

No se fue sin luchar, simplemente luchó de una forma distinta.

sometimes it's hard to be as adaptable as you'd like.