Quotes About Modification

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?

The notion that a term can be modified arises from neglect to observe the eternal self-identity of all terms and all logical concepts, which alone form the constituents of propositions.* What is called modification consists merely in having at one time, but not at another, some specific relation to some other specific term; but the term which sometimes has and sometimes has not the relation in question must be unchanged, otherwise it would not be that term which had ceased to have the relation.

One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.

My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

What does it take to build something so that it's really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you've made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there? You want to be able to mess around with it and progressively change it to bring it into an adapted state with yourself, your family, the climate, whatever. This kind of adaptation is a continuous process of gradually taking care.

Reinventing beats inventing nearly every time.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

Innovation means change.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations

You know, that's a really beautiful bow," Neverfell interrupted suddenly. "Did you make it?" "Found it, mended it, modified it," was the curt reply.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

With time, everything changes, and there is nothing wrong in that.

You have to have the ability to adapt. That's probably the single most important quality you need to have as a WWE Superstar.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.