Quotes About Adjustment

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

evolution had stripped them of this power.

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Capisco che l'adolescenza venga definita l'età ingrata. E' dura. Ma alla fine, a vent'anni suonati, le cose si aggiustano.

Mental health cannot be defined in terms of the adjustment of the individual to his society, but, on the other hand, that it must be defined in terms of the society to the needs of man, of its role in furthering or hindering the development of mental health. Whether or not the individual is healthy, is primarily not an individual matter, but depends on the structure of his society.

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.

If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.

Generally speaking, no matter what you're trying to do, you need feedback to identify exactly where and how you are falling short. Without

They had been pushed out of their comfort zone, and the muscles responded by getting strong enough to establish a new comfort zone. Homeostasis had been reestablished.

Programmers are constantly in maintenance mode.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion.

A couple of weeks after the Olympics, I thought I'd pop down to my local supermarket and do some grocery shopping. One person came up to me in the frozen food aisle, and that was it. I was mobbed, and I had to leave my shopping. Now, I either shop online or go very late at night when the supermarket's nearly empty.

Training at altitude took two weeks to get used to.

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

After that first month in Sydney, I went home for two weeks. I didn't want to ever go back because it was so hard.

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

When I stopped playing, I gave up exercising and put on some weight.

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.