Quotes About Adjustment

When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.

A divorce will always change your life because it's such an upheaval. It's such a change.

I had been blogging for a few years when Jonah Straus, my now-literary agent, reached out to see if I'd consider writing a cookbook. At the time, I didn't feel ready; I was still getting adjusted to life in the upper Midwest, and I was still finding my recipe voice.

I had to lower my hands, I had to work my hips a different way. I also had to stride to get the power. I'd always been a standstill hitter and had to generate power from my upper body. Basically, I had to change everything I was doing. It was really difficult.

After being on the field for so long and feeling like you have some control over the outcome or what's happening out there, now I'm upstairs, and I have no control over anything. I'm working through that.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

Change is such hard work.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

You can't just stick with something that doesn't work.

I became stiff as a safety, and so I had to learn to move like a corner and think like a corner.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

I don't like things set in stone.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.