Quotes About Adjustment

It never got easier, it just got different.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Golf is like everything else. You plan. Then real life intervenes.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected. Witness David's challenges at Energix.

How will you make it your own?

do whatever it takes to get into the transition

you can decide to learn and adapt, or you can become brittle and fail.

is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

despite "the ease with which US corporations can walk away from their creditors is breathtaking," no such leeway or adjustment exists when it comes to nations and their governments. The intent is to subordinate government power to Wall Street and London bankers.

Like Cincinnatus, most American servicemen returned to the proverbial plow. In 1945, we had 12 million men and women in uniform. One year later, we had fewer than 3 million wearing a uniform.505

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

based on what the wind does, we build

At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.

It is not all bad. Hard as this may be for some cats to believe, it is in fact quite common that a kitten raised with a dog will develop an actual fondness for the animal, even going so far as to keep it as a trusted pet. With proper work and training, you too can mold any dog in the household into an enjoyable wrestling foil, an occasional warm bed, or at the very least an object of humor and entertainment.

And we're going to be here for fifty years, so whatever is not right, we'll get right.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

De pronto me di cuenta, incómodo, de que pensaba que la sociedad en la que vivía era algo así como un medio natural —digamos una sabana o una jungla— a cuyas leyes había tenido que adaptarme.

There's no such thing as lost; there's just adjusting your perspective" -Scott