Quotes About Modifications

To these he added two 'intermediate modifications': cirro-cumulus and cirro-stratus; and two compound modifications: cumulo-stratus and cumulo-cirro-stratus. This final modification was more colloquially known as the nimbus or rain cloud. From

When the facts change, I change my mind," the legendary British economist John Maynard Keynes declared.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

The most important measure of brainpower is the ability to adapt to change.

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He didn't seem out of breath in the slightest. 'I had this flash of insight into how I could modify the iterations of the immediate probability space. It's like that game children play where they set up a complicated arrangement of. . . ' He frowned. 'You know, those little plaques with spots on them that you play a game with. Just don't expect me to be able to do it on demand. Or ever again, it seems. Oh, well.' Behind

It is true that the reign of his father, Henry VII, had already seen many modifications in medieval costume. The line, instead of being vertical, was now horizontal; the shoes, instead of being excessively pointed, became broad-toed, as if to echo the new style of architecture with its flattened arch. Ladies' headdresses ceased to be replicas of Gothic pinnacles and began to resemble Tudor windows.

During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it's not to fit, so you have to make all of these alterations and modifications. So in a way, I build the characters with the cast, and it's sort of custom-made, the whole process, and then you have to make all of these adjustments.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

T]he emancipation of the workers contains universal human emancipation — and it contains this because the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production, and all relations of servitude are but modifications and consequences of this relation.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

Nothing universal can be rationally affirmed on any moral or any political subject. Pure metaphysical abstraction does not belong to these matters. The lines of morality are not like the ideal lines of mathematics. They are broad and deep as well as long. They admit of exceptions; they demand modifications. These exceptions and modifications are not made by the process of logic, but by the rules of prudence.

When Heckel spoke, his voice emerged from a miniature pipe organ projecting from the top of his helmet. He had to keep making adjustments to knobs in his chest area to stop the voice becoming too shrill or deep.

The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more 'artificial'…

Science is itself one of the modifications of amour-propre, the love of inequality.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

In an ideal system, we incorporate new features by extending the system, not by making modifications to existing code.

Unless a person is used to changing, it's hard to change.

Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.

The Proto-Semitic phonological system contains perhaps twenty-nine consonantal phonemes, which despite certain modifications have been conserved with great fidelity in languages like Arabic.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

Generally speaking, in pre-modern times you had an idealistic tradition, which was political, and a hedonisic tradition, which was non-political. Now in the 17th century a merger of these two traditions takes place, a political hedonism. And that is one of the greatest changes which has ever happened, and of course up to the present day this determines, with many modifications, that would lead us too far.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.