Quotes About Adjustment

To change someone's behavior, you've got to change that person's situation.

Tweaking the environment is about making the right behaviors a little bit easier and the wrong behaviors a little bit harder.

sometimes in times of change, nobody knows how to behave, and that can lead to problems.

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

Change isn't an event; it's a process.

Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.

Las organizaciones exitosas han entendido a golpes que la actitud de actuar como si nada estuviera pasando ya no les va a funcionar.

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display

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marrying Jim was like stepping into water the exact same temperature as the air. I barely had to adjust to the change.

Children with borderline mothers adjust to the chaos of their lives by learning to expect the unexpected. They associate love with fear and kindness with danger.

The Sweet Spot is about shifting the small gears, the ones that rotate relatively easily. And because all the gears are interlocking, when we tweak a small gear, large gears start to move—effortlessly—as well.

It is well known that onset of the disease is affected by lifestyle, yet even when the at-risk subjects were given information about their susceptibility, many did not adjust their fat intake or increase exercise or consult medical specialists to minimize their risk.

Don't worry about it,' he said, noting my frown in response to him deciding on a final setting that seemed rougher than the last. 'We're not happy until you're not happy.

harsh neo-liberal "adjustment" (the so-called "ajuste duro") of the 1980s.

I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'.

You are exercising what the poet Keats called your chameleon quality, the ability to 'tolerate a loss of self and a loss of rationality by trusting in the capacity to recreate oneself in another character or another environment'.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.