Quotes About Modification

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

Because change begets change.

The use of behavior modification and cognitive therapy techniques that were designed to replace Christ and the Scriptures with human wisdom (Prov. 16:25) cannot produce in an angry child the fruit of the Spirit. That

altered brands.

From then on, we were simply different people. Not new people; different.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

An American constitution is not supposed to be immutable as in France, nor is it susceptible of modification by the ordinary powers of society as in England. It constitutes a detached whole, which, as it represents the determination of the whole people, is no less binding on the legislator than on the private citizen, but which may be altered by the will of the people in predetermined cases, according to established rules.

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change with them too].

And as this happens, our growing sense of whatever the world outside may be, is apprehended as a modification in the neural space in which body and brain interact. It is not only the separation between mind and brain that is mythical: the separation between mind and body is probably just as fictional. The mind is embodied, in the full sense of the term, not just embrained.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Christina on the Coast' is completely different from 'Flip or Flop.'

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

The game of football is always changing.

'Red vs Blue' as a show has evolved dramatically. It looks an entirely different show to what we started with, but the format of the show has changed so much over the years, too.

What's your game?" "I modify the human desire for war." "People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.