Quotes About Adjustment

I changed Portugal to France and France to England.

I played the flute in elementary school, but when I got into high school, they didn't have any flutes; they gave me a clarinet and said, 'Play it in the same way, just hold in a different position.' I really didn't care much for it.

For Internacional I played in several different positions, so I have no problem adapting.

It wasn't the best move to move here as far as snooker's concerned. But everything else, living in Norway is beautiful, my wife, my son, you can't change those things, it's one against 10 positive things.

I think every administration has a settling-in process. And there's always an adjustment between what you can say during a campaign and what you find are the possibilities and the imperatives when you win the election and you enter the Oval Office.

I just try to make my home everywhere I go as much as I possibly can.

We've changed a lot of things to help certain groups of people. We widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 feet to 16 feet to make it so the big guys aren't as dominant. Well, why didn't we just say, 'You've got to learn to play against them in the post?'

I gained, like, 20 pounds in, like, two and a half, three weeks. So I just got too big too fast, and my body wasn't adjusted to that.

Since when is politics consistent?

For me, the most important thing is that I adapt quickly to different conditions and be consistent.

If you are just constantly doing the same thing, good batters can adjust.

The brain is constantly adapting.

Consumer behaviour changes in a glacial fashion.

I think being funny was a coping mechanism because I was always the new kid in school.

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

You always have to look at every game and seek to correct mistakes.

I remember a night when I was living in Swindon on my own, and I couldn't sit on the couch because there were two cushions, and I couldn't sit equally between them.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

I had a whole bunch of things I knew I needed to work on from self-scouting. I knew on certain routes what I needed to do and ways to use my eyes and shoulders and manipulate coverage.

We need to learn to live with Covid.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

The shock I had, from moving from L.A. to New York, you know, whether you live in an apartment, whether you like to or not, it's cramped, it's crowded and it needs - guess what - a renovation.