Quotes About Adapting

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while--

Old age on a good day is a dance we don't know the steps to: we falter. We may not be going in the direction we'd anticipated, or have any clue at all about which way to turn next.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be. There will be a great many things you can achieve not by attacking them but with a little patience and a modicum of flattery

The truth was that lately, she had not had quite enough happening in her life. She and her husband had moved this past fall to a golfing community outside of Tucson. (Peter was passionate about golf. Willa didn't even know how to play.) She had had to leave behind an ESL teaching job that she loved, and she was hoping to find another one, but she hadn't exactly looked into that yet. She seemed to be sort of paralyzed

Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself—not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing onward was foolish. He

But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along! Tally laughed. So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

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I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

That's is life. You move and change according to things that happen to you and things that you make happen because of poor choices.

I want to be a student for life.

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and it'll just keep doing that. It's a matter of embracing it or not.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Hopefully people will grow with me, because I'm definitely not going to be stuck in one place all my life.

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.