Quotes About Adjustment

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus.

There's going to be a time when the ball stops bouncing and you have to move on to something different, whatever that is.

Honestly, in the beginning what I imagined was driving around the country with my samples and showing them to the stores that I thought I should be in. Road tripping that is really what I wanted to do. Then I was like, 'Damn it. I have to work every day.' I don't like this, but I got used to it.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

I've been no stranger to change.

I mean, I'm pretty sad that I have to leave all of my home friends and I can't see them for basically half a year. That's not a great thing, but we'll FaceTime and stuff. What I'm excited for is to be on the set with all the 'Stranger Things' cast.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." —J. Krishnamurti

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

When something goes badly, I don't automatically assume I did something wrong. Instead I ask myself, "What policy was I following that produced this bad outcome, and do I still expect that policy to give the best results overall, occasional bad outcomes notwithstanding?" If yes, then carry on!

I too often took golf's capriciousness as its most maddening vice, but if I adjusted my stance and looked from another angle, its fickleness was the game's greatest gift.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.

You never really get to the point in any offense - even when I was in New England for six years - where things don't change.

It's like basketball - when players come onto a new team they've got to get used to the scheme and how they run the offense. Same with us in baseball. We've got to get used to each other on defense and trust each other and communicate.

I used to be a mean guy once I got in the league - to officials. And then I've gotten a little nicer. It has helped.

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.