Quotes About Modulation

People went around warning you: Never imagine you can change someone, for people NEVER CHANGE. Then they talked about leopards and spots. Forgetting altogether about chameleons. Or that octopus, which lives on the ocean floor and can change its shape to become a stingray, a sea anemone, or even an eel

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

A woman's beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman's body.

There are times in life when you have to change your tune to keep harmony.

no podemos seguir ignorando el hecho de que seguir usando una y otra vez palabras llenas de negatividad no sólo no nos va a ayudar a resolver los problemas que esas mismas palabras describen, sino que, muy al contrario, lo va a hacer aún mucho más difícil. No estoy hablando de desterrar las palabras negativas de nuestro vocabulario, sino de procurar modular los vocablos que utilizamos.

Los hipocampos, al igual que los núcleos del septo y la corteza orbitofrontal, tienen la capacidad de modular los núcleos amigdalinos.

Saussure may show that each act of expression becomes significant only as a modulation of a general system of expression and only insofar as it is differentiated from other linguistic gestures. The marvel is that before Saussure we did not know anything about this, and that we forget it again each time we speak--to begin with when we speak of Saussure's ideas.

If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The