Quotes About Adapting

Good manners means accommodating the person you were with.

I think . . . the secret is to just settle for the shape your life takes.

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.

You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

This place changes its weather more often than I change my shirt.

in most of us, by the age of 30, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. (William James)...we are not forced to accept the hardening of our field of knowledge, a kind of psychosclerosis. There is no disgrace in not knowing everything. The problem is being unwilling to reach beyond what one knows to a broader, fuller reality.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. —Mark Twain

You learn over lifetimes. You keep try. You will find middle way to be. This life. Next. You find your way.

Been to yesterdays, lived through todays. Looking on toward tomorrows - new characters, new plays. The whys of life change, and so do ways, new scenery is built, to fill an empty stage.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

I might be a bit slow, but I can learn.

We must live and learn.

Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family or friends. Something can always be contrived.

Well, we must live and learn.

My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.

Life is an ad hoc affair. It has to be improvised all the time because of the hard fact that everything we do changes what is. This is distressing to people who would like to see things beautifully planned out and settled once and for all. That cannot be.

Children. Suppose we have children and it turns out we don't like them?" "If we can like Bob, we can like anything," Morelli said. Bob was in the living room licking lint off the carpet.

Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

Unlike singers, who can earn for years by singing one song, we artistes have to be on our toes all the time. If I write something funny or create a joke in the morning, there will be someone narrating my own joke to me the same evening.

We need new, dynamic models for growth through the sharing economy, using big data to unlock new insights and adopting closed-loop cycles.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.