Quotes About Modification

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

We all deal with change differently.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

Every young pro has to go through a period where you change a few things, get a little bit technical, and maybe I'd had that period for too long.

We must feed, shelter, and nurture one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must avail ourselves of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification.

America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

For 'Tevar' we chose Amit Sharma to do the Hindi version of the Telugu hit 'Okkadi' because we wanted to change the flavour and mood of the original.

I guess this place is where your intellect changes. I guess it's no behavior-modification place. but a history tutor said Harvard used to be . . . worried as much about the students' morality, their character, as . . . exams.

face. "She had implants on her chin and her cheekbones. She's also had her nose altered." "Plastic surgery?" Tracy said. "Not the kind you're thinking of," Funk corrected. "This is facial structure alteration." "Someone trying to change their appearance," Tracy

Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.

As I began my life as a bookkeeper, I learned to have great respect for figures and facts, no matter how small they were.… I had a passion for detail which afterward I was forced to strive to modify.

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It is the wide sense of the word that is nowadays forced upon us, for clearly it is no longer possible to think of politics except as the politics of culture, the organization of human life toward some end or other, toward the modification of sentiments, which is to say the quality of human life.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

The categories that a reader brings to a reading, and the categories in which that reading itself is placed - the learned social and political categories, and the physical categories into which a library is divided - constantly modify one another in ways that appear, over the years, more or less arbitrary or more or less imaginative. Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the onoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress.

Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year-old men and women were too stupid to do even Epsilon work. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. So far without success. Mr Foster sighed and shook his head.