Quotes About Adjustment

And since Habit, among all the plants that grow in human beings, is the one that has least need of nutritious soil in order to live, the first to appear on the most apparently arid rock, had he begun by treating the rupture as a pretense, he might eventually have become genuinely accustomed to it.

I have to say that I had known people whose intelligence was superior. But the infinite extent, or the egoism, of love causes us to love people whose intellectual and moral features are the least objectively defined for us, we readjust them endlessly according to our desires and our fears, we cannot separate them from ourselves, they are no more than a vast and vague terrain where we externalize our affection.

Becoming American meant rejecting one of the two worlds. It meant trying to hide the grease stains saturating the paper in which your school lunch of a fried potato and egg sandwich on crusty bread was wrapped, while the rest of your classmates ate ham on white bread with mayonnaise.

Life provides me both the right and the responsibility of continuously adapting my way of thinking.

Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

I changed? Either that or I stopped acting the way you wanted me too.

Flexibility is an essential ingredient to building a more robust, tough and resilient you. You got to be able to adjust, adapt, change and thrive no matter what circumstance you find yourself in. Be awesome, be tough and be resilient.

No matter how bad it can be you'll develop a taste for it over time. We were made to adapt to difficulties it only takes time to mature.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Tratar de asimilar un país que no es el mismo, y sobre todo comprender por qué yo tampoco soy el mismo.