Quotes About Adjustment

Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.

where to place the limit—how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control—is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done.

When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

My eyes widened as I took in Rafe and Prest. Rafe seemed fine, but Prest. . . "Prest, you shaved your head!" Those long black braids were gone. Prest's bald head gleamed in the light. He shrugged and ran a hand over his baldness. "Easier to shave." He flashed me a smile. "It grows back. "Eventually," Rafe added. "Until then, I will need to protect my eyes from the glare.

then the bottom fell out of everything that used to have a bottom, and now she's expected to kill her own plants. At

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self-righteous kooks are.

Put a frog into a pot of water and gradually turn up the heat. The frog will keep adjusting to the increasing temperature until, finally, it dies. Put a frog into a pot of boiling water, though, and the frog will immediately try to jump out of the pot. We too notice the difference when things change drastically.

Adaptation according to biology means the adjustment of an organism in order to survive in its environment. Similarly, humans are meant to adjust and adapt to challenges of their lifetimes in order to survive and excel eventually. Yes! of course, you shouldn't be frightened by challenges of any kind. Rather, confront your challenges by all means possible until you surmount them and then emerge a success as well.

Rigidity causes inflexibility to a change. Therefore, be less rigid in all your undertakings in order to be or become more flexible to adopt and adapt to a change. Besides that, it's often ideal to be less rigid and more flexible.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness

My father always said the first ten years of marriage were like a shakedown cruise. You couldn't fix the problems until you figured out where they were hiding.

When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.

clients. They're always there. You do have to worry, and look at the practice you've built. Give me a rundown on today's list." Casey could count on Brianna to boost her morale. "Two phobias, the low self-esteem, three adjustment disorders, and one panic attack.

Accept what you can't change by changing what you can't accept. My father may have died nearly in front of my daughter's nose, but I won't have her thinking the timing was all bad. I can change the narrative. Can't I?

Even when change is welcome, adapting to it doesn't always come easily

Life was going along smoothly, and then in a moment everything changed. It happened to me with my mother. It happened to Lockie at the Three Day. You do everything you can to right the ship of your life again, but it always lists a little.

Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.

They've moved me to a new office and I don't like it at all. Different pigeons come to the window.

Theory, however, bends to convenience,

Any plan is bad which is not susceptible of change.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.