Quotes About Adjustment

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington's birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

Lives have a way of getting on with themselves. But in the short run it will be hard.

Failure is not fatal, but failing to change might be.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

Moving makes you feel all alone inside.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

A catholic and far-sighted theory of the adjustment of the conflicting factors of life is philosophy.

It implies a recognition by the individual that his life, liberty, and development depend upon social organization, and his willingness, in return, to adjust himself to the needs of the community.

It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.

I must know! Get used to disappointment.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

make a switch, you need to script the critical moves

If you want a reluctant Elephant to get moving, you need to shrink the change.

In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment. The

Simple tweaks of the Path can lead to dramatic changes in behavior.

The first thing to realize is that even small environmental tweaks can make a difference

the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.