Quotes About Adjustment

it is so important to bear in mind the probability of conversion from one function to another

we are always slow in admitting great changes of which we do not see the steps.

Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Discontent, then, arises from absurd notions of equality, from natural conditions of inequality, from false notions of education, and from the very patent fact, in this age, that men have been educated into wants much more rapidly than social conditions have been adjusted, or perhaps ever can be adjusted, to satisfy those wants. Beyond all the actual hardship and suffering, there is an immense mental discontent which has to be reckoned with.

She had made her way to a place where an entirely other order prevailed from what she had always known.

I move the previous question

Time partially reconciles us to anything.

Better get accustomed to it, she told herself, mentally adding a note to her checklist: relearn how to human.

And with each new pitcher a hitter must adjust and adapt to a new repetoire of pitches.

John Laroche: You know why I like plants? Susan Orlean: Nuh uh. John Laroche: Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world. Susan Orlean: [pause] Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away.

The problem with the suspenders my mother bought for him is that he hasn't adjusted the straps since he got them. So instead of attaching somewhere around his midsection, the suspenders clip onto his pants three inches below his nipples. Now picture the suspenders attached to sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term camel balls.

But it was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

I can't have no assists and five turnovers. If you have no assists and five turnovers, you have to look yourself in the mirror and figure out how to adjust.

Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally miserable.

If I have misplaced a pass, I want to know why I've done that or whether I could have looked at a different pass.

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.

For over a decade, I had played every week, so to then have a season when you are not - that physical and mental high when you build up to a game and come down afterwards - was missing. It takes a while to adjust and is quite confusing.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

Knowing my mistakes and being able to go back to fix them - that helps me out a lot.

I came out of the failure of 'Mister' rather fast. It took me just three days.

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.