Quotes About Adjustment

I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too.

When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.

I think most people live in a fiction. I'm no exception. Think of it in terms of a car's transmission. It's like a transmission that stands between you and the harsh realities of life. You take the raw power from outside and use gears to adjust it so everything's all nicely in sync. That's how you keep your fragile body intact. Does this make any sense?

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

I write differently from the way Glen used to. I haven't written very much lately, I mean, since I've been in the group, but I'm starting to now more. And just the fact that I'm there instead of Glen means that the others do everything differently. Cos they have to adapt it to, like, fit in with me, do you know what I mean?

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.

You have to have the ability to adapt. That's probably the single most important quality you need to have as a WWE Superstar.

I'm making a fresh start. That's another reason for the name change from Lord Steven Regal to William Regal here in the WWF.

When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

At some point, you're not going to be able to run the ball for 180 yards, even with the best running back in the NFL. That's when you have to be able to throw the ball.

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

Yeah, well, it did earlier - but as Bobby and I have played together, our thing as a unit has become so strong that they kind of had to get in where they fit in. And most people do.

The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.

As far as routine goes, one of the things we talk about all the time is that if you have a routine that's great. But you can't be like married to it because the bus could break down on the way to the arena, you could get stuck in traffic, you may be sick that day and you may feel better by game time.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

I think there needs to be modified penalties in training camp because there's severely modified compensation in training camp for all of us.

I've had transfer students who have never seen the inside of their previous coach's house.

I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.