Quotes About Adjustment

it is easier to change a decision that hasn't been made.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

Within reason" is not the sort of place one can easily find on a map; in fact, its location may vary considerably from one day to the next.

The principle is not that you change when your surroundings change, but that your surroundings change when you change.

You gotta change. With life. Life changes, you got to go with it. Or you get pulled apart." I

If your life isn't working You have to ask why.

When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone's life as a major factor.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

se la nostra ansia è in parte un prodotto della cultura, allora possiamo modificarla cambiando le nostre reazioni nei confronti di quella stessa cultura.

What's a level? It's a typical activity, it's the universal context of an action in the world. Perceptual consciousness often consists in noticing divergence in relation to a level, and this divergence is the sense which is thus configuration or structure. This sense is less possessed than it is practiced: perhaps it can't be defined, but every aberrant fact is lived as deviation in relation to it. Thus perception adjusts imperfect circles, goes toward good forms.

Adaptability is the quality which makes for progress,

Negative feedback always says in effect, "Stop what you're doing, or the way you're doing it—and do something else." Its purpose is to modify response, or change the degree of forward action—not to stop all action. Negative feedback does not say, "Stop—period!" It says, "What you are doing is wrong," but it does not say, "It is wrong to do anything.

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.

It wasn't that Faith had become political in some sort of moment of epiphany; it was more that the world had moved and she had moved too.

In a new environment, it was possible to transform.

Sometimes you had to let go of your convictions, or at least loosen them far more than you ever though you would.

You get used to whatever you get.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.

It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

I miss that. I want...I need things to go back to normal.