Quotes About Adjustment

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha, that you have in your hand, will go away.

We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'.

In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.

The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. 'Adjust everywhere'.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

if the facts don't fit the theory change the facts

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.