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Quotes About Adjustment

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence.
~ Edward Abbey
Don't forget the time change. Tomorrow when you leave for work it will be later than when you woke up.
~ Edward Blackwell
IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
~ Edward Carpenter
You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.
~ Anonymous
Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes.
~ Anonymous
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
~ Anonymous
l'adaptabilité est le secret de la survie. Selon Charles Darwin, ni le plus fort ni le plus intelligent mais seulement les espèces les plus adaptables gagne à la fin. Alors faites de votre mieux pour être le plus adaptable, dans votre vie personnelle autant que dans les relations professionnelles. Qui est le secret de la survie et de succès!" - Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate.
~ Anonymous
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change with them too].
~ Anonymous: Latin
The rest of the newly-arrived person is frequently advisable, or necessary, to allow of adjustment of the spirit body to its new conditions of life. It has been accustomed to being very securely fastened to the physical body whereit can receive whatever unpleasantness the physical body may be submitted to during the course of its earthly term.
~ Anthony Borgia
The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
~ Anthony Brandt
I suppose when I started out I didn't know the kind of comic I wanted to be at all. So in a way, the audience wrote my act. I went in and did stuff that I would have done in the pub, and some of it they liked, and some of it they didn't. And I kept what they laughed at.
~ Frank Skinner
When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
~ Dasha Zhukova
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
~ Eddie Murphy
I cannot wear low-waisted pants - I'm constantly pulling them up.
~ Peyton List
Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.
~ Cris Cyborg
You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.
~ Jenny Lewis
I just roll with the punches.
~ Iris Apfel
Listen, things change, that's part of life. Part of what makes you great is being able to move when you need to move. Being limber, agile and roll with the punches so to speak.
~ Austin Aries
Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.
~ Mookie Betts
That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
~ Alexander Payne
I started off as a right-winger, but my coaches pushed me further and further back. So much so that I ended up in defence, because I wasn't good with my hands and there was nowhere else to go! So they put me there and that's when I found my position.
~ Thiago Silva
When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.
~ Chris Harris, Jr.
Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
~ Charlotte Dujardin
To me, if you don't get something right, the biggest thing you need to do is recognize it and fix it.
~ Michael G. Rubin