Self-adjustment Quotes

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Don't struggle to get what you want, but modify your wants.

Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

I think since 'Aladdin' my expectations for things releasing and what they're going to do in my career, I've had to really pull them back.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.

And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

From social pariah to King of the World? It's taken 45 years, so I've been able to adjust to it!

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.