Quotes About Adjustment

Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.

To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

It had taken some time for Jenna to get used to her huge Palace bedroom, having slept in a cupboard

It was my experience that the printing on anything I picked up, from maps to telephone books, had gotten smaller every year.

Change does come.

I adapt my driving style more or less to anything, from go-kart to motorbike to wet, more downforce, less downforce, Pirelli, Bridgestone, Michelin, V8, V6, whatever.

When you start out somewhere, you've got to get your feet wet. You got to find your place.

I feel like my hand will be a little too high on the football sometimes and that will make the ball go out of whack sometimes.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.

I think regardless of hip injury, surgery or whatnot, you're having to evolve and change how you're going about your day just as the years go by, so, yeah, I've changed the way I go about getting ready.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

You just have to adapt to what is needed at that moment, whereas as coaches are going crazy, because they're used to having and following a schedule. Everything's laid out in front of them on when they're going to practice and when they're going to take a plane to this city.

When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily.

I become a chameleon for wherever I am.

For me, it's good to have that versatility of playing in different positions. Wherever I'm playing, I try to change my game.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it's by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.

When the fans whistle, it's clear that you have to change something and the fans have every right to do it.