Quotes About Adjustment

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

For the first few days, you will feel very tired.

In place of top-down government, Burke made the case for a society shaped from below, by traditions that have grown from our natural need to associate. The important social traditions are not just arbitrary customs, which might or might not have survived into the modern world. They are forms of knowledge. They contain the residues of many trials and errors, as people attempt to adjust their conduct to the conduct of others. To

The solution is to adjust our demands, so as to bear the costs of them ourselves, and to find the way to put pressure on businesses to do likewise. And

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Errors once discovered are more than half amended

By the time of "A Full Vindication," Hamilton had clearly assumed the coloring of his environment.

He thought Jack might fare better in the new environment.

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

I felt like someone else. I felt like a normal person. But I got over it.

operation was for me. I had been in town less than a half-hour. The other five had probably been here all their lives. Any problem with any of them and an embarrassed sergeant would have shuffled in. He would be apologetic. He would mumble to them.

The adjustment process wasn't made any easier by the response he received from the other patrons. Everyone was pleased to see him. He felt like a magnet with the right polarity.

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people who have spent their lives in the military have trouble adjusting to civilian life afterward.

Deal with it," Reacher said. "It happened. It can't un-happen. Most folks aren't going to like it. Deep down humans haven't been modern very long. But some won't care. You'll find them.

permanent positions. Joint Fighters shrank

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

Sometimes you had to become a different version of yourself to move safely through certain spaces in the world.

A poem wasn't really a poem, it seemed to her, unless it was full of metaphor; it took her a while to adjust to the prosody she heard in his work.

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.