Quotes About Adjustment

People change teams all the time. People might not go from Green Bay to Chicago or from Chicago to Green Bay all the time, but people change teams all the time.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.

It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.

Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

You step in a divot or a hole you're not expecting to be there, and it can throw off your timing or your approach.

I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.

Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Changing position comes naturally to me, to be honest.

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

I said, it's strange, each time I see you again. You look different. Altered. You're not like I remember. I have to get used to you.

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

rooms seemed changed. I took to

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

four big personal questions I asked everyone in e-mail once a month: What's going well? What's not? What do you want me to do more of? What do you want me to do less of?

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.