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Quotes About Adjustment

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
~ Max von Sydow
I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
~ Dolly Parton
While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more diversified capitalist society.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
~ Dennis Bergkamp
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
~ Judi Dench
A true champion can adapt to anything.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
~ Nolan Ryan
As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.
~ Emmitt Smith
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I have to fit in. Wherever they want to use me, that's fine.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.
~ Kevin Garnett
When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
~ Bai Ling
if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
~ Placido Domingo
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
~ Elizabeth Aston
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
~ Larry Wall
You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.
~ Peter Webber
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.
~ Demetri Martin
Strange how the past was remade to suit the present.
~ Steven Erikson
I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn't doing what I was doing.
~ Steven Wright
Ho l'orologio che va avanti di tre ore ma non sono mai riuscito ad aggiustarlo. Così da Los Angeles mi sono trasferito a New York.
~ Steven Wright
How could life change so much so quickly?
~ Storm Constantine
I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.
~ Stu Jackson