Quotes About Adjustment

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied

Daylight Savings" Like the money the light doesn't go as far these days

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Making everything easy to change, makes the entire system very complex...

It's okay. I have to ride this until it's just a whimper. I didn't think about what was happening. I wasn't ready for all this change. ... It never felt quite real.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

if you don't ever find yourself recalibrating your decisions, you're likely ignoring some issues that might become problems down the line.

Change is one of my favourite words.

Night moves don't work in the morning

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

We were rather afraid of the noise of the trains at first, but the landlord said we should not notice them after a bit, and took £2 off the rent.

Yes," he said, "but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.

On doit procéder par tâtonnements, essayer des hypothèses vraisemblables et partielles se contenter d'approximations provisoires, de manière à laisser toujours la porte ouverte à des corrections progressives.

I can feel myself giving up over time. Getting used to it. Old age is getting used to things.

Repeatedly curing a system that can cure itself will eventually create a system that can't.

Rather than fight change, a more sensible approach is to learn to live with it. Or to make a living from it.

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.