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Quotes About Adjustment

The body's decline creeps like a vine. Day to day, the changes can be imperceptible. You adapt. Then something happens that finally makes it clear that things are no longer the same.
~ Atul Gawande
by incorporating feedback from each success and each failure to improve their guesswork.
~ Atul Gawande
I am still adjusting to this role.
~ Atul Gawande
This has never been a problem before," people say. Until one day it is.
~ Atul Gawande
In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I walked up to the house, rubbing my shoulder where it still hurt from the rifle's recoil. But soon, it wouldn't hurt because I would get used to it. It was amazing to me, what a person could get used to.
~ Augusten Burroughs
In one scene, when I was supposed to say, In a pig's eye you are, what came out was, In a pig's ass you are. Old habits die awfully hard.
~ Ava Gardner
Repeating the same behavior will just get you the same results. "As
~ Spencer Johnson
Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we
~ Spencer Johnson
Haw said, "Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we." Haw
~ Spencer Johnson
My Cheese? is a story about change
~ Spencer Johnson
Remember: Move with the Cheese! Ken
~ Spencer Johnson
Be Ready to Quickly Change Again and Again.
~ Spencer Johnson
In short, a change imposed is a change opposed.
~ Spencer Johnson
They didn't overanalyze or overcomplicate things. When the situation changed and the Cheese had been moved, they changed and moved with the Cheese.
~ Spencer Johnson
They didn't notice they needed to change what had once been working.
~ Spencer Johnson
Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
~ Spencer Johnson
Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
~ Spencer Johnson
If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.
~ Spencer Johnson
Noticing Small Changes Early Helps You Adapt To The Bigger Changes That Are To Come.
~ Spencer Johnson
or if she's coming back from Zumba class at the Y, the thermostat ticks to a more comfortable post-workout setting.
~ Stan Lee
If we won't be able to get rid of our "guests," we'll grow used to them and we'll live with them, and if their Creator changes the rules of the game we'll adapt to the new ones, even if for a while we'll kick against the pricks, raise a storm.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Oh good, everything was back to normal - I was talking to myself again.
~ Stephanie Klein
And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
~ Stephen Chbosky