Quotes About Adjustment

I know what to expect now with the mask and the social distancing and no crowds. But honestly, I feel like this is something I can never get used to, because this is completely not normal, and I obviously want it to be back to normal how it used to be.

There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

Obviously making the adjustment to playing against grown men in the NBA, it's all a learning curve.

You have to learn how to deal with curve balls.

Anytime you come to a new team and with a new player there is a learning curve.

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

It's always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else.

When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.

I know what I can bring to the table. I have done it all my career, but every team you need something different.

You cannot stick with the same media strategy forever any more than you can stick with the same football tactics forever.

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.

The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.

Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.

I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun.

At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

The first time the doctors put on my prosthetic legs they made me much taller than I'd ever been. I then remember the doctor saying 'we need to shorten this man' and we all were in hysterics.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. We fear so deeply what we think other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding.

Many evangelicals have a difficult time adjusting to a highly pluralistic culture, and we often come across as trying to impose our standards—which

It's more than coping. It's adaptation. You go into the dark one species and mutate to fit your surroundings. Grow better eyes and ears. Get used to the feel of the air so you can tell when something is coming at you. After a while you're so suited to the environment you're a whole new species.