Quotes About Adjustment

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Gather together those things that change at the same times and for the same reasons. Separate those things that change at different times or for different reasons.

When the stakeholders change their minds about a feature, that change should be simple and easy to make. The difficulty in making such a change should be proportional only to the scope of the change, and not to the shape of the change.

So it is important to judge over time whether a person is rational or irrational. Can they sustain success and hit upon several good strategies? Can they adjust and learn from failures?

Understand: when you enter a new environment, your task is to learn and absorb as much as possible.

When you go into society, leave behind your own ideas and values, and put on the mask that is most appropriate for the group in which you find yourself.

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

No plan of battle survives first contact

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.

Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can't change.' You'll only get a sick stomach, otherwise

Light, how the horror of yesterday became merely the uneasiness of today, once you grew accustomed.

You have to trim your sails to take advantage of how the wind is blowing. Think coolly, and you make it back to shore. Get your neck hot, and you'll drown.

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing.

Everything always changes. The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.

No, it is not me that's changed. I'm the same; it is everything else that's different.

The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.

You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

Okay, I'll move the lawn chairs. (Axel)

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...