Quotes About Adjustment

It has been tough to get used to hard surfaces and adjust my game - I grew up in the Netherlands playing on clay, so I love that surface the most. For my game, it is the most natural.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.

I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.

After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.

That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a straight line. There's usually going to be a zig here, a zag there, that catches you by surprise. And then it's on you to adapt.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

NEVER MIND THE CHEESE —who moved my weekend?

A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.

then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don't think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.

Change is not made without inconvenience.   RICHARD HOOKER

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.

And you can never prepare for this new reality in which you have been dunked.

Delilah had been transferred from her father's household to her husband's like crated porcelain.

Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.

I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist.

I want to feel normal again," she once told me. "Maybe if I pretend I am for long enough, it might actually happen.

buy her entry into normal society, but she hadn't realized what that society was like.