Quotes About Adjustment

Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.

jiggered-together adaptations.

She had learned—by degrees—the ability to accept what life was handing her instead of what she wished for.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

I thought: Enh, they'll get used to it. Children grow up. Children leave.

They will observe how their children eat cake, how they study, when they tell subtle falsehoods, when they run away from problems rather than face them. They will take the time to make these minor corrections and adjustments, listening to their children, responding to them, tightening a little here, loosening a little there, giving them little lectures, little stories, little hugs and kisses, little admonishments, little pats on the back.

Há alguma exageração nisto; mas o discurso humano é assim mesmo, um composto de partes excessivas e partes diminutas, que se compensam, ajustando-se.

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

It's not what I thought my life would be either, but somewhere along the line we have to pick things up and run with them.

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INTERVIEWER: Do you do much rewriting? Wiper: I forget which of the great sonneteers said: "One line in the fourteen comes from the ceiling; the others have to be adjusted around it." Well, likewise there are passages in every novel whosefirst writing is pretty much the last. But it's the joint and cement, between those spontaneouspassages, that take a great deal of rewriting.

As Wilson puts it, what happens is that we come up with a plausible-sounding reason for why we might like or dislike something, and then we adjust our true preferences to be in line with that plausible-sounding reason.

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

If you want to feel the sunshine, change position!

We're halfway through another great time of the year. You should start to make little improvements to your lifestyle and thinking, your late. Start making a change now.

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Change must Needed.

My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.

Probably jet lag.

If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp. —Plutarch

What shape is water?' " 'Water doesn't have any shape!' I said, laughing. 'It takes the shape you give it.

Tracer bullets show what you're hitting. This may not always be the target. You then adjust your aim until they're on target. That's the point. It's the same with tracer code.