Quotes About Adjustment

There was no such thing as a good divorce for children.

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

It had felt like she was starting a new job: her job as a primary school mother. There would be rules and paperwork and procedures to learn.

How quickly people adapted to strange rules and regulations.

Whenever he was required to use his reason he felt like someone who had always used his right hand but was now required to do something with his left.

No matter how much time goes by, missing someone never gets any better. You just learn to work around it.

She wondered how other people adjusted to vacations. It was such an unpleasant feeling, like gunning a car in neutral.

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

Jarred had started out a radical environmentalist, a position only ninety degrees from survivalist. With one small last adjustment in the same direction, he transformed to libertarian gun nut.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.

all happened so slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly, the change to our parents, to our home, to our lives after they arrived.

Noah was born she backed off completely for a while, barely visiting

This takes a bit of getting used to," he said. "All this smiling and good spirits. You've never been one of those lighthearted fellows." "I'm not lighthearted, I'm . . . wholehearted.

My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

I have a lot of traditional values I follow personally, which was hard to deal with when I first moved to L.A.

My team fills two separate drink bottles for me in the car. One is water, and the other has orange juice. I just turn a valve and go from water to juice... to adjust my glucose levels.

It is difficult to adapt to Van Gaal. I had a couple of rows with him.

For a 20 year old the gap from Holland to England is massive. That's a fact. Not all players are able to settle in directly from day one. I remember even Van Persie needed two, three years but he became Van Persie.

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.

Edgbaston is a ground where you have to think on your feet because it can vary so much from season to season or session to session.