Quotes About Modification

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

the virus responsible for Korean hemorrhagic fever broadcasts itself in the urine of mice. For modification of a host's behavior, nothing matches rabies virus, which not only gets into the saliva of an infected dog but drives the dog into a frenzy of biting and thus infecting many new victims.

Adapted from:

much adapt to the environment as alter the environment

Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes) both secularized the economy and converted it into a domain external to man: a system of inflexible laws whose constraints permitted no modification.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change.

Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.

Organizations go through change.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

Usually, it is not difficult to change from indoors to outdoors.

I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.

Doing different things is great. It's always good to change things up. If you do the same thing over and over, it can get boring.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.