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Quotes About Alter

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.
~ Hannu Rajaniemi
And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that – events beyond the will of the gods – and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.
~ Steven Erikson
mindset impacts emotion, which alters biology, which increases performance. Thus, it seemed, by tinkering with mindset—using everything from physical to psychological to pharmacological interventions—one could significantly enhance performance.
~ Steven Kotler
flop-transition
~ Nancy Kress
The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out.
~ Jonathan Anderson
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
El mayor descubrimiento de mi generación es que los seres humanos pueden alterar su vida modificando su disposición de ánimo… Si cambias tu forma de pensar, puedes cambiar tu vida».
~ Ken Robinson
When religious symbols that are partly different from those we know emerge from the unconscious of an individual, it is often feared that these will wrongfully alter or diminish the officially recognized religious symbols. This fear even causes many people to reject analytical psychology and the entire unconscious.
~ C.G. Jung
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
~ Gayle Forman
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything. -Willem
~ Gayle Forman
There are things I can't force. I must adjust.
~ CM. Ward
To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies.
~ Sue Atchley Ebaugh
I always try to adjust to the situation.
~ Novak Djokovic
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
~ Steven Pressfield
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
~ William H. Gass
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
~ Bjarke Ingels
The luck will alter and the star will rise.
~ John Masefield
It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.
~ Annie Wersching
I am the same as I was, and do not alter; it is you who have changed. What has happened is this: you took my advice when you were still untouched by misfortune, and repented of your action when things went badly with you; it is because your own resolution is weak that my policy appears to you to be mistaken.
~ Thucydides
Fox grins. Go strides to the rear of the Ford. His manner never alters. The Vietnamese has purposeful intensity down pat.
~ Tim Winton
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
~ Tom Stoppard
out! So we had to get up and go somewhere else, because he was really cross.
~ Kes Gray
I realize that nothing is really normal. All it takes to alter normalcy is a death or a birth. Or just some misguided fear, love, or loneliness that never goes away.
~ Kevin Sampsell
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
~ George Herbert