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Quotes About Modifications

Over the years, EpiPen's manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these revisions. Mylan rightly argues that these features differentiate its device.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.
~ Jason Statham
Wiggle dresses today are certainly around, but variations have been made to make them more practical. A genuine wiggle really does make walking a challenge, so often you find them with a vent in the back so you can at least move your legs, or cut more like a pencil skirt.
~ Dawn O'Porter
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.
~ Lisa Lutz
Leela: "There are many implements here that would make excellent weapons. See, over there! With a few modifications, that could be an effective tank!" The Doctor: "It's a ride-on lawnmower." Leela: "It's churning blades would be a fearsome sight as we rode into battle!" The Doctor: "I'm not sure we'd be such a fearsome sight riding into battle at three miles an hour.
~ Eddie Robson
The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
~ Anthony Brandt
He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
~ Wale
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
~ Joseph H. Greenberg
But this dependence, as it exists at present, is not an original institution, taking a fresh start from considerations of justice and social expediency—it is the primitive state of slavery lasting on, through successive mitigations and modifications occasioned by the same causes which have softened the general manners, and brought all human relations more under the control of justice and the influence of humanity.
~ John Stuart Mill
Most good decisions will involve these steps: Figure out your goal or goals. Evaluate the importance of each goal. Array the options. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. Pick the winning option. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities.
~ Barry Schwartz
By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained, and also the ideas of such modifications.
~ Baruch Spinoza
With women composing nearly half the American workforce and increasingly serving as the primary breadwinner for families, we can't afford to treat pregnant women differently than their counterparts, especially when slight job modifications could help them stay in the workforce at no risk to their health.
~ Valerie Jarrett
Yes, a car is still a car, even if you change it later.
~ Eric Freeman
Unfortunately, institutional barriers and operational complexities sometimes prevented loan modifications that would otherwise make sense.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
We must not forget that the most enduring modifications in toys are never the work of adults, whether they be educators, manufacturers or writers, but are the result of children at play.
~ benjamin walter iii
Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
~ Rachel Cohn
I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.
~ Gio Gonzalez
But you know so many men," Ophelia said, "isn't there even one for you?" "They're all adjectives," I said, "they all make me feel modified; even a word like girl friend gives me this feeling I've been cut in half. I'd rather just be a car, not a blue car or a big one, than sit there the rest of my life being stuck with some adjective.
~ Eve Babitz
A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.
~ Bonnie Buxton
I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The pain that is experienced when the loss is caused by an act that modified the status quo is significantly greater than the pain that is experienced when the decision led to the retention of the status quo," Danny wrote in a memo to Amos. "When one fails to take action that could have avoided a disaster, one does not accept responsibility for the occurrence of the disaster.
~ Michael Lewis
I expect that regardless of where the search for the foundations of space and time may take us, regardless of modifications to string/M-theory that may be waiting for us around the bend, holography will continue to be a guiding concept.
~ Brian Greene
Adaptability is key.
~ Marc Andreessen