Quotes About Adjustment

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The successful parents I saw were able to redefine who they were and renegotiate their needs and roles as humans, parents, and partners.

Parenting is constant readjustment.

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

Adaptation can be considered a mindful response to change.

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

True repentance includes three ingredients: (1) acknowledging the truth (revelation), (2) admitting you were wrong (confession), and (3) adjusting your direction (action).

Tem coisas que não são de ruindade em si, mas danam, porque é ao caso de virarem, feito o que não é feito.

When you have a plan in mind and have tried honestly and diligently to make it happen, pay attention when nothing happens or when roadblocks constantly pop up.

Horse had been by himself for a long time, and he was in need of the occasional attitude adjustment. I'd already lived with one asshole and I wasn't in the market for another one.

Anything can be unlearned — even in the most settled civilizations.

Since it looked like this was going to be my new normal, I might not be using the straightest ruler when it came to measuring crazy.