Quotes About Adjustment

Growing is a patient thing, lad," Daniel explained. "You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.

People can get used to almost anything.

His beard might once have reached to his waist, but his waist had grown off and left his beard high and dry.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

If running a marathon excites you, create space in your life for it. Adding a new commitment means recalibrating different areas of your world. Logging more miles as your race date approaches means less time invested in other pursuits. Not forever, just during the months you train. Too, you will find how training fits into your world serves not only crossing the finish but other areas of life.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

Sometimes our lives change drastically but we refuse to accept the change. We soldier on as if nothing has changed and get further and further behind. We believe we should be able to manage it all because we used to before the change happened.

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Changing to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.

A guide to turning your clocks back in November: * Smartphone: Leave it alone to do its magic * Sundial: Move one house to the left * Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering, or a hammer * Car radio: Not worth it, wait six months

Daylight saving time is the practice of adjusting clocks by one hour to make it easier for people in 1918 to tend their crops.

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

I live in a constant flux; I am unable to make fixed plans.

It is a funny thing, how one's perspective changes.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter.

IMPROVE YOUR APPROACH. You keep getting rejected in bars? Find a different place, where the odds aren't stacked against you. Nobody responding to your networking e-mails for "Ten minutes of your time please?" Then offer something. Give something for free so people immediately see value in your approach immediately. You keep cold-calling customers and they hang up? Find a different way to get distribution. CHANGE UP, DON'T GIVE UP.

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For nearly three hundred years, the Spanish calendar for the Philippines had been one day ahead of the Spanish calendar, because Magellan's expedition had not, of course, adjusted for their westward travel halfway around the globe.