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Quotes About Adjustment

Soon she was going to have to relinquish her self-image as a hermit.
~ Nevada Barr
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Better to accept what you cannot change and learn to adapt than rail against the immutable and end up wasting time and effort.
~ Unknown
We are all matelots of perception – our sails adjusted consequently.
~ Unknown
Sometimes the body acclimitizes so thoroughly that we forget things have ever been different.
~ Nicola Griffith
Orange is just change, Sara. Not all good, not all bad. Just different.
~ Nicola Griffith
A new Tammy, the tentative beginnings of a new life. But there were still a few threads from the old that needed to be dealt with.
~ Nicola Griffith
Autumn, like grief, changes everything.
~ Nicola Griffith
After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The process of rotating, stretching, and moving is called an affine transformation.
~ Unknown
Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.
~ Nigel Lythgoe
All of us have to make the best of a bad job - which is what life is really all about.
~ Unknown
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
~ Nolan Ryan
Information is a name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it, and make our adjustment felt upon it. The process of receiving and of using information is the process of our adjusting to the contingencies of the outer environment, and of our living effectively within that environment.
~ Norbert Wiener
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Al??kanl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey bilmedikleri için, sizin de yoklu?unuza al??acaklard?r.
~ Unknown
She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she seemed to die a little.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Time passed. Kevin and I became more a part of the household, familiar, accepted, accepting. That disturbed me too when I thought about it. How easily we seemed to acclimatize.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She had learned to keep her sanity by accepting things as she found them, adapting herself to new circumstances by putting aside the old ones whose memories might overwhelm her. She
~ Octavia E. Butler
You can't come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time. After a while, though, things will fall into place.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She had learned to keep her sanity by accepting things as she found them, adapting herself to new circumstances by putting aside the old ones whose memories might overwhelm her.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she died a little.
~ Octavia E. Butler
They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.
~ Octavia E. Butler