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Quotes About Adapting

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.
~ Taryn Manning
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
~ Madeleine Albright
My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything; guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery.
~ Mark Twain
If offered the option to have someone more experienced, I certainly would have taken it. But that was simply how the system worked—no such choices were offered—and so I went along. What else could I do?
~ Atul Gawande
I am still adjusting to this role.
~ Atul Gawande
The third requirement for success is ingenuity—thinking
~ Atul Gawande
Whatever parts of us we choose to use, we all share something in common: a need to find our way in the Maze and succeed in changing times. The
~ Spencer Johnson
But she didn't know that when she was younger; then, the classroom was just a place that transformed itself based on whatever she was supposed to learn that day, like the Room of Requirement.
~ Stan Lee
Las cosas cambian. Y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene para nadie.
~ Stephen Chbosky
but because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
~ Stephen Chbosky
La gente cambia, los amigos se van y la vida no se detiene por nadie
~ Stephen Chbosky
Lucrurile se schimb?. Iar prietenii pleac?. ?i via?a nu se opre?te pentru nimeni
~ Stephen Chbosky
Beware! Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight.
~ Auliq Ice
Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted.
~ Melaina Rayne, Given
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
~ Jean Kerr
I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.
~ Brooke Burns
And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
~ Jojo Moyes
MOVING ON means we have to protect ourseves
~ Jojo Moyes
But...sometimes, Louisa, moving on means we do have to protect ourselves.
~ Jojo Moyes, After You
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.
~ Jonathan Allen
I'd been forced into a movie, and there was nothing to do but follow the script.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
~ Emily Procter
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
~ Eng's Principle
Don't go through life; grow through life.
~ Eric Butterworth