Quotes About Adjustment

You bowl according to situations - whether at the death or at the beginning.

It's fine for a bowler to have a plan but I feel as a batter you need to have another plan to counteract what they're doing.

My missus has had to put up with me boxing. I'll be able to spend some better time with them and not always have to put boxing first. So that's good for me. I'll enjoy that part of life.

When I broke into the Everton side under Roberto Martinez, I was playing in the No. 10 role, and I had never played there before, so I was getting used to that role as a first-team player.

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Changing an opponent shouldn't be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it's boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.

I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel.

I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

As long as global financial conditions normalize in an orderly fashion, EMEs should have sufficient time to adjust.

With the glucometer, I always know how much blood sugar I've got, so I can adjust my insulin or the food I eat.

Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.

At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.