Quotes About Adjustment

We are afraid to change because we think that, after so much effort and sacrifice, we know our present world. And even though that world might not be the best of all worlds, and even though we may not be entirely satisfied with it, at least it won't give us any nasty surprises. We won't go wrong. When necessary, we will make a few minor adjustments so that everything continues the same.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.

One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you cope with.

We've been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

No era propio de ellos.

It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to avoid checkmate, we'll have to readjust the pieces a few moves shy of the finish.

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

I don't think he even knew he had settled back naturally into the same groove he had jumped out of in Tacoma. But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.—Eric Hoffer

It takes more energy than most people realize to unhook out of one set of behaviors and get into another kind of rhythm and tool set.

Organizations are now almost universally in morph mode, with ever-changing goals, products, partners, customers, markets, technologies, and owners. These all, by necessity, shake up structures, forms, roles, and accountabilities.

It was a revolution against owner-caste oligarchy and cheating! Adam Smith recommended the remedy of democracy, plus openly negotiated and deliberated laws that are evenly enforced by transparently accountable civil servants. And our markets got better – more creative and productive – each time those rules were adjusted to expand our circles of democratic inclusion.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use.

Oh, you are well tuned now, But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.

we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.