Quotes About Adjustment

you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.

He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

For things to change, you have to change.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

Every new situation requires new strategy.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.