Quotes About Modification

When I agreed to play Ravana, I only had one condition that I get to modify the dialogues. One has to maintain the purity of the text, but the dramatization and the emotion behind it can be toyed with.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

Keeping the design good as it changes is called refactoring.

Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games. Imagination creates the games that reason proceeds to play. Then, exemplified by people such as Plato and Newton, it keeps modifying those games so that playing them is more interesting and profitable. Reason cannot get outside of the latest circle that imagination has drawn. It is in this sense, and only in this sense, that imagination holds the primacy.

Capitalist development modifies essentially the nature of the State, widening its sphere of action, constantly imposing on it new functions (especially those affecting economic life), making more and more necessary its intervention and control in society.

jiggered-together adaptations.

Let beloved idiots ruin their own lives, if that's what they're dead set on doing, with no attempt whatsoever at control or behavior modification from you.

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Always take small, deliberate steps, checking for feedback and adjusting before proceeding

knowledge isn't stable. It changes—often rapidly.

History books are being re-written all the time

But like everything else, love changed.

An old syllabus, an old word, an old policy: these habits hold despite the modifications. The modifications made in response to previous complaints can end up reproducing the structure the complaints were about.

about perceptions is that you shouldn't hesitate to modify your perceptions to whatever makes you happy, because you're probably wrong about the underlying nature of reality anyway.

But he is so exceedingly accurate, that, if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate, or too general, or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.

Principle 1: Make the Change Too Small to Fail

Also, tweak your ideal note-taking template if you feel some aspects aren't working or could be improved upon.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Everything man is and does is modified by learning and is therefore malleable. But once learned, these behavior patterns, these habitual responses, these ways of interacting gradually sink below the surface of the mind and, like the admiral of a submerged submarine fleet, control from the depths. The hidden controls are usually experienced as though they were innate simply because they are not only ubiquitous but habitual as well.