Quotes About Adjustment

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

I always try to adjust to the situation.

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.

The world is changing. I'm trying to adjust to it, just like everyone else.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.

Playing on turf sometimes, not grass, makes it a little bit more difficult.

I have no problems with the blue astro-turf. I have got used to it, and I believe that we have got sufficient games to get accustomed to playing on blue turf.

I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it.

In high school, I was the best broad jumper on our team, and I kind of thought that when I got to MIT, I'd probably still be the best broad jumper, 'cause why do broad jumpers come to MIT? But it turned out to actually be the other way around. There was another person in my class who could jump about 3 feet further than I could.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.

Everyone seems to be surprised that I've changed post-marriage. But what's so surprising about it? You must change; it's such a big turning point in your life.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.