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Quotes About Adjustment

T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think we'll make out just the same. It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.
~ Michel Auder
To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
~ Sam Walton
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
~ George Bernard Shaw
But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.
~ Mark Matousek
You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.
~ Hans Zimmer
Enough is enough and it's time for a change.
~ Owen Hart
I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
~ Andy Murray
Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
~ Carlo Ancelotti
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
~ Jeff Kinney
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
~ Jessica Lange
Yesterday was the first time I saw Kevin Durant in a Warrior T-shirt. I like did a double-take; it was the weirdest thing ever, because it's still kind of fresh.
~ Stephen Curry
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
~ A. C. Benson
Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
~ Benjamin Graham
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
~ David Letterman
I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.
~ Fabian Cancellara
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
~ Joseph H. Greenberg
I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
~ Dave Barry
Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.
~ David Benioff
I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas cookies by yourself. There's nothing wrong with it in theory, but you're really supposed to be doing it with other people, and not just any other people.
~ Anna Quindlen
I never felt more like kicking, but of course I could not kick such a good master, and so in time I got used to everything...
~ Anna Sewell