Quotes About Adjustment

Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth—and it was soon done—done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire.

If you have been a slave all your life, used to being ordered about and abused from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep, it's impossible to adjust to normal life overnight. I had never been free to make my own decisions before and had no idea how to do it. I was like a bird that has been bred in captivity suddenly being released into the wild: I fell apart.

These children learn to adapt to life rather than learning how to live their lives.

the primary social goal of children (and adults) was to belong and feel significant within their family or social group. Although they are not always conscious of this goal, children constantly adjust their behavior to achieve a sense of belonging (connection) and significance (responsibility and capability).

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

Rather than demand whatever it takes, we ask, What will it take?

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

You don't have to live with a decision forever. If you make a mistake, you can correct it later.

Similarly, if you lose someone, don't replace him immediately. See how long you can get by without that person and that position.

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nuestras necesidades y deseos varían a medida que perdemos o nos abandonan o nos desposeen

Don't Exaggerate with "Always" and "Never": Give Them Room to Change

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

For a moment he thought the chair was aligned, but then he decided it was not. He moved it another turn to the right. He tried sitting in the chair now but it still felt peculiar. He turned it again. Eventually he made a complete circle and still he could not find the proper alignment for the chair.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Custom reconciles us to every thing.

That was my lesson. I needed to act differently.

We have to deal with the world as it is, not as it should be," he would gently point out.

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.

Sai cosa si fa quando non se ne può più? Si cambia.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

If you live long enough, you learn that nothing has ever been, nor will it ever be, the way it used to be.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.