Quotes About Adjustment

If what Picasso proposed is true, that the first stroke on the canvas is always a mistake, it is best to get on with the mistake, without delay, earlier rather than later. Write one sentence, make one choice or point at something and say "Yes." And then, as the process unfolds, and as long as I keep at it and stay attentive and resolute, making adjustments to each mistake, things eventually fall into place.

Limits are a necessary partner in the creative act as well as in the crafting of a successful life. What matters is the ability to look around and accurately recognize what is working for you and what is working against you, adjusting to the realities of the situation and mining the potential of the limits with invention and energy.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

the staff, which once welcomed foreign funders and reporters with open arms, is now no longer willing to meet.

It's not the strongest of the species that survives, neither is it the most intelligent that survives. It is the most adaptable to change.

Of course, the world is uncertain and the world does change. That means that our goals ought to change in response. But the goals we set are remarkably unresponsive to new information.

A negative outcome could be a signal to go in and examine our decision-making. That outcome could also be due to bad luck, unrelated to our decision, in which case treating that outcome as a signal to change future decisions would be a mistake.

No sé cuándo volví al mundo llamado normal, formulación vaga pero cuyo sentido todos comprenden, es decir, aquel en el que la visión de un lavabo brillante o de las cabezas de los pasajeros en un tren deja de plantearnos interrogantes o de resultar dolorosa.

We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

When you start new programs there's always things you can't anticipate.

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

If a proposal doesn't prove out as expected when we run it, sometimes we change the model.

My game hasn't changed too much. I'm doing the same things as I did in college, except I'm outside more. It's tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.

In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.

A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life - and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps, Person continues. you get you brains back.

On Shaw's principle that "if you don't get what you like, you better like what you get