Quotes About Adjustment

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here.

You get so used to going to MetLife and then going right to the Giant locker room and now you go left to the Jet locker room and that's a little weird - not anymore, but it was at first.

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

It's always a bit strange when you join a show in the second season.

I have to listen to my body - and it's telling me not to run long distances. So how do you train for a race when you know you won't have the same result as before? And should you even join if you know you can't run the whole race? Absolutely - just run-walk it.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

Does there exist a clinic where a watchface can be taken for a 'lift'?

La moral siempre se adapta a la vida, y nunca a la inversa

Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.

The internet has added a new layer, not created a revolutionary break.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Il n'arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu'on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu'on n'arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu'on n'arrive plus à replier une chemise comme l'avait fait la vendeuse. Les plis du tissu sont là, bien marqués, on les suit, mais le résultat n'est plus parfait, il est personnel.

We like to imagine our identities are fixed, while in reality so many adjust like chameleons to fit the circumstances around them. We tend to develop based on how we are nurtured and go where we are directed. -Humbuggle

Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Okay, I could deal with this. I could accept this. Deal with this, brain!

But after spending ages walking around with everyone piling bricks in your arms, it can throw you off balance when someone removes a brick to carry for you.

We know how to chameleon our way through the day

The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.

Not everything can go according to the plan.

I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls.

Wallander smiled to hear how he too used to speak, before his move to Ystad had changed his dialect.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.