Quotes About Adjustment

No human being has sufficient foresight to build plans which need no alteration or change.

We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes.

We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

The model was right, it worked well, but the game turned out to be a different one than anticipated.

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

the project managers incur only small errors and can adapt to them.

and, although it was a less ambitious version than initially envisioned

mostly cosmetic variations

sometimes life requires compromises:

For instance, few realize that we are changing the brains of schoolchildren through medication in order to make them adjust to the curriculum, rather than the reverse.

When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what can you do? Everything comes tumbling off the shelves of your expectations; nothing fits anymore.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

Flexibility. To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

when something drastic happens, there's a lag time. It's not quite denial, and not quite shock, but more like a mental free fall.

He would have to adjust to a life without her, as well as a life without himself, for who was he now?

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.

If the bar can't be lowered," Goddard said slowly, "then the floor must be raised.

mas a ilusão de propósito é fundamental para uma população bem ajustada.

My spoon was bent so that if I wanted to eat I had to pick the spoon up with my right hand. If I picked it up with my left hand, the spoon bent away from my mouth. I wanted to pick the spoon up with my left hand.

interpositions