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Quotes About Modification

money,war and time can change people
~ Nicholas Sparks
the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.
~ Noam Chomsky
To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL
~ Nora Roberts
Conditions change and we mutate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Shift from convergence to divergence
~ W. Chan Kim
Obviously comedic styles do change.
~ Larry David
it is not an easy matter to change suddenly from the butterfly to the busy bee.
~ Laura Beatty
while you will have your tailored fifteen responses to each ask you make, when you hear something that you did not expect, just add it to the list.
~ Laura Fredricks
Implementation questions: What big adventure(s) did you experience this week? What little adventure(s) did you experience this week? What effects did you see in your life from doing something out of the ordinary? What challenges, if any, did you face while implementing this week's strategy? Did anything make it difficult for you to plan adventures into your life, or to have the adventures you planned? How did you address these challenges? If you modified this rule, how did you do so?
~ Laura Vanderkam
For Mia, however, the photographs were only a vague approximation of what she wanted to express, and she soon found herself not only altering the prints – with everything from ballpoint pen to splashes of laundry detergent – but experimenting with the camera itself, bending its limited range to her desires.
~ Celeste Ng
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.
~ Charles Darwin
But, like the unanimous resolution of a public meeting, which will oftentimes declare that this or that grievance is not to be borne a moment longer, which is nevertheless borne for a century or two afterwards, without any modification, they only reached in this the conclusion that they were all of one mind.
~ Charles Dickens
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.
~ Grant Morrison
Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn
~ Gregory Benford
Tradition is laziness.
~ Gustav Mahler
cerro se está acomodando
~ Hector Tobar
So in The Thin Red Line 1st/Sgt Warden became 1st/Sgt Welsh, Pvt Prewitt became Pvt Witt, Mess/Sgt Stark became Mess/Sgt Storm. While remaining the same people as before. In Whistle Welsh becomes Mart Winch, Witt becomes Bobby Prell, Storm becomes John Strange.
~ James Jones
The cornerstone of our Tech 5 development platform is this uniquely textured map or world, where every surface doesn't have a repeating texture on it. It can all be stamped and modified due to the work done on it. The core technical question to be resolved on this was how do we get that media set to be playable on the iPhone.
~ John Carmack
What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.
~ Cass Sunstein
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
~ Patti Smith
It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.
~ Ezra Klein
You can't stay who you are... Things change and you have to be able to adapt.
~ Erik Spoelstra
Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.
~ Terrell Owens
That's why it's time for a change.
~ Thomas E. Dewey