Quotes About Adjustment

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Been here ever since, and it ain't all that different from home. S'long as I ignore the differences, hear?

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.

It's hard to figure out what the right amount of hiding is. Fortunately, with Hide Delegate (189) and Remove Middle Man, it doesn't matter so much. I can adjust my code as time goes on. As the system changes, the basis for how much I hide also changes. A good encapsulation six months ago may be awkward now. Refactoring means I never have to say I'm sorry—I just fix it.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Contant afdition without subtraction always make a mess.

I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world.

The fact that Kate was based at Quantico somehow softened the blow of moving again.

A man don't always have to change the land. He can find a way to fit in.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Life is about adapting to changes every step of the way....

She tugged on her sleeves again. He could tell the dress was bothering her something fierce. Well, he could understand that. He'd've been mighty uncomfortable in a dress himself, and she was probably no more used to a dress than he was.

It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you." "I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it ,change the way you you think about it.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

those toddlers who had experienced the fewest disrupted placements and changes in caregiver during their first year(s) of life tended to adjust to their new families with the least difficulty.

Toddlers who were prepared and gradually transitioned to their adoptive families adjusted much more quickly than those without preparation or transition did.

In most, but not all, families, adopted toddlers bonded sooner with siblings who were at least four years older than they were than they did with close-age siblings. It was no surprise that families who took time to include their children in the adoption process, planning, and transition of the new toddler sibling reported a much more satisfactory adjustment.

You cannot tailor-make your situations in life, but you can tailor-make your attitude to fit those situations. ~ Zig Ziglar

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you've thought in a certain way for many years, if you've had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you're bound to feel … disconnected

Mary Lynn Manns