Quotes About Adjustment

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC - that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

And he knew that if you could not adapt and overcome, then you were totally hosed. Because conditions were always going to change on you. These days, probably for the worse.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.

Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom

I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he happens to be living. I know not whether this mental quality is deserving of censure or commendation, but it proves the incredible pliancy of his mind and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees that evil is inevitable or impossible of annihilation.

But once he got over the astounding strangeness of his new life (it took him about a week), he suddenly realized he was simply on a long holiday.

He said to me, Bailey, things are changing between us. And at first I thought it was true. But the way I see it, Nothing changes until it changes right?

When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been watered.

Adjust my dreams for me.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Disintegration--I'm taking it in stride.

Disintegration—I'm taking it in stride.

Truth is a chameleon.

Adaptability is the essence of survival. —from the Azhar Book

If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born. No matter how hard they try, no matter how pure their intentions... Everything will go wrong. And that's when the gawkers show up. From far and wide they come to inspect the hapless new parents. The nice ones bring food.