Quotes About Adjustment

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

I'm always just grinding and figuring out what adjustment I need to make and how to tweak my swing to where I want it to be for that game and that pitcher.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

Well, I'm a runner, and I have to run with Secret Service - even though they can run twice as fast. It took me a while to get used to running with them, because I love the solitary aspect of it. So I have two rules. First, I can't hear their feet. And second, I can't see their shadows.

I started to realise I am not as strong as others, and I can't muscle someone off the ball who is twice the size of me. So I have altered my game, playing on the half-turn, for example, and it's made me a much better player.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

She moved from that chair to this one over here (pointing to a small chair in the corner)

The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Event succeeds event; accidents, people, happenings, one after another come toward us. Each must be met and dealt with. . . . For this process of adjustment is life, and the mastery of it is the art of living. . . . —KARL DE SCHWEINITZ, The Art of Helping People out of Trouble, 1924

He kept repeating the story, adjusting it a touch each time, as if he were a tailor working on a jacket, taking in a bit of fabric here, letting out a seam there, then stepping back to consider what fit what best.

It is normal for a fifth-grade aged student to be writing at a third-grade level, reading at a fifth-grade level, and doing math at a seventh-grade level. A child who succeeds at two subjects and cries over the third may still be showing immaturity—and the answer may be to drop back to a lower level in only the third subject.

I feel like dough, being kneaded and reshaped again and again.

How are you doing with the separation?

I'm having a hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the rose, for the first time the descent makes me feel safer.

It wasn't part of my plan, that's for sure," says Peeta with a frown.

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

That was the thing about being a captive bird...You learned to adapt, and before you knew it your captivity seemed normal. If you were free once again, you would become confused and miss the security of your captivity.