Quotes About Adjustment

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

Sometimes I'll present a work to the public and listen to the responses-then pull it back, shape it, and put it back out.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy. Wendy: That's kinda creepy. Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change.

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.

In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.

If I do have a strength, it probably is adaptability.

I do think one of my strengths is the ability to adapt to whatever the situation is.