Quotes About Adjustment

English is illogical in places. Trying to make it logical is a mistake. Instead, bend to it.

If in Los Angeles in 1949 he had preached "fast and loud," by the time he got to New York in 1957 he had learned to dial down the speed and let the microphone do the heavy lifting.

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

He'd stopped permitting himself to be unhappy about it.

To work on a movement you need: A clear picture or feeling of how it is now A clear picture or feeling of how it should be A real-time feedback mechanism for identifying the difference. And

Change is the salt in the soup of life.

cerro se está acomodando

H. Beam Piper

People have to learn to live with newly-discovered facts; if they don't, they die of them.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Sometimes things don't always work out the way we want. We just have to pick ourselves up and find a new direction to go in.

Sometimes life offers you the opportunity to put it right.

You will heal and you will be whole again, but you will never be the same.

Stop fighting your circumstances." Start working on changing them.

conservative because "he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be."2

He felt like a radio tuning in to a new channel, one that was beginning to fuzz into range, slowly coming in clear, proper, the way his Hettie had always wanted him to be. The new feeling humbled him.

Reb was a cheerful soul, a man of boundless enthusiasm, who believed the Talmud empowered him with the gift of making everyone around him happy and comfortable, including Negroes, whom he saw as fellow immigrants who, like him, were forced by poverty and lack of resources to learn many skills and continually adjust.

The Smileys, of course, are still the Smileys. They just have more room to frown in.

You find that other piece that matches yours, that completes yours, and you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don't go in perfectly smoothly, even if they require a few adjustments. You don't demand perfection. You make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing over the small angles that don't.

It's different from what he expected, but certainly not worse. Sometimes things happen in life, and we just have to accept them.

keep your head down, try to blend in, and don't get on anyone's bad side. You've already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher's desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.