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Quotes About Modification

The English government is one of those which arose out of a conquest, and not out of society, and consequently it arose over the people; and though it has been much modified from the opportunity of circumstances since the time of William the Conqueror, the country has never yet regenerated itself, and is therefore without a constitution.
~ Thomas Paine
The eye accustomed to darkness can hardly bear at first the broad daylight. It is by usage the eye learns to see, and it is the same in passing from any situation to its opposite.
~ Thomas Paine
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
~ Thomas Szasz
A mudança não é da natureza de uma transmutação de uma coisa em outra coisa inteiramente diferente, mas é simplesmente uma mudança de grau nas mesmas coisas, uma diferença muito importante.
~ Three Initiates
When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.
~ Erik Spoelstra
Every now and then you might have to change things around. It's not something that is good to do a lot - especially with your batting - but every now and then, I don't think it's a bad thing.
~ Joe Root
Every now and then a little bit of change never hurts.
~ Bob Stoops
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Makes me want to tweak reality's gamma slider.
~ Cory Doctorow
If you don't like it, alter it. If you can't alter it, put up with it.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
~ Charles Kettering
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
~ Charles Schumer
Most software that is written is either re-implementing existing concepts or building upon and extending them in new ways.
~ Chet Haase
For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.
~ Harold Wilson, 1967
Growth is impossible if we continue to do things the same way
~ H.W. Mann
Well, I might even get used to the idea that she had no tail.
~ Harry Turtledove
I'd like to tell you it gets easier, but it doesn't. It just gets different.
~ Heather Hepler
The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
Your initial opinion on just about anything will change over time.
~ Lemony Snicket
but time makes many changes.
~ Jane Austen
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool... That was object modification-- the crude beginning of tool making.
~ Jane Goodall
In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.
~ Simon Beaufoy
Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.
~ David D. Burns
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
~ Peter F. Drucker