Quotes About Acclimation

When you are new, it is difficult to get momentum and get to know your team-mates when you are not regularly in the team.

I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement.

Sin embargo, lo dicho: esto eran sólo noticias de periódico. Con nuestros propios ojos y oídos no veíamos ni escuchábamos nada muy distinto a lo que ya de por sí nos habíamos acostumbrado a oír en los últimos años. Uniformes pardos en las calles, desfiles, gritos de Heil y, por lo demás, business as usual.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

You grow immune to cruelty. It becomes the norm. You accept it. You move on.

But maybe when he has worked at ShopRite longer, he will like it better. New jobs take getting used to.

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

Within a week, I knew the subway systems,

The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

It is difficult to begin with Atletico, because there is pressure from the fans, because they are accustomed to a very good goalkeeper, but I have no fear of that. I play my game.

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

I think I come back to Essex and fit in pretty well but until you get there you don't know.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me. my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.

You need a little time, the usual sort of time it takes to get to know your team-mates and the league itself, but it's all good, generally. I'm very happy.

It's amazing what human beings get accustomed to—how quickly the bizarre, the absurd and the perverse can become routine. People have become accustomed to torture, or so I've read, bonded with their tormentors, the wielders of pliers and electricity. It happens gradually. Maybe one day you get high with another couple and there's a certain amount of joking and talk, and the next thing you know, the guy's making out with your wife and you're kind

within weeks, you can run up and down easily, your feet knowing exactly where to go. But only in your own house. On another man's steps, look out.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

It's only my first year in the pros but I feel like I've been here a while now, I feel like a veteran already.