Quotes About Adjustment

He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting. That's what the insanity is. She's adjusting to something. The insanity is the adjustment. Insanity isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, it can be an intermediate step in a right direction. It wasn't necessarily a disease. It could be part of a cure.

I'm about to sharpen up the engine a little.

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

Unless a person is used to changing, it's hard to change.

Stop doing what you're doing. In other words, take a break and assess what is working and what is not working. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Stop doing what is not working, and look for something new.

and now I did not even have my Saturdays to look forward to.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

Oh, well, I won't call you 'Johnny' any more. After this I'll call you 'Sammy,' which was, of course, adding fuel to the fire.

A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, she said with a sigh.

It can't be very pleasant getting used to living - no pleasanter than getting used to stopping it.

She wanted to be alone—to think things out—to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world into which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered as to her own identity. Was she—could she be—the same Rilla Blythe who had

Perhaps after a while I'll get used to it, but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

It leaves you in the same strange place, trying to figure out how to navigate the world without the most important person watching.

But would it be that easy? To adjust my lens a little? To stop wallowing in all this murky sorrow? To change my attitude, let the sunlight in, fix myself?

arrived. She settled herself on

I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.