Quotes About Adjustment

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

If your boot is too tight, walk barefoot.

Can't change what was, she said with a shrug. So you deal with what is

When things change, the wise adjust.

propped up a little as her eyes adjusted. She hardly ever got to watch Roarke sleep. Most of the time he rose before she did. And sleep for her tended to be wandering in lucid, often disturbing dreams

The daily life of kids was a strange one, she thought. You got hauled to various locations, dumped there, hauled out again at the end of the day. During the dump time, you formed your own little societies that might have little or nothing to do with your pecking order in your home life. So weren't you constantly adjusting, readjusting, dealing with new rules, new authorities, more power, less? No wonder kids were so weird.

Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs. She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought. On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed. Cool.

What's up with the statue routine?" Trez muttered. "Someone move your My Little Pony collection again?

What are you going to do for fun if you can't devastate planets anymore? I'll have to find another hobby, I guess.

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by Nature. Nevertheless, Nature had given him plasticity. Where many another animal would have died or had its spirit broken, he adjusted himself and lived, and at no expense of the spirit.

When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped.

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it's something we can adjust to.

What makes a three-man booth challenging is everybody's gotta give up a little something. Right? Because normally you'd have one guy being the analyst, and he's got the ability to go at his own pace and do everything and break down everything, but when you've got two people, somebody's gotta give up a little something.