Modification Quotes

81 quotes by 76 authors

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't… — Satyajit Ray
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar… — Elihu Root
He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the… — Nicolas Malebranche
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must… — Deborah Lupton
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a… — Nina Fedoroff
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. — William James
Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the… — Norman Cousins
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed… — Thorstein Veblen
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. — Frederick Sommer
Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications. — Frederick Lenz
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're… — Frederick Lenz
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. — Mitch Daniels
I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a… — Jim DeMint
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and… — Brian Eno
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. — Mikhail Kalashnikov
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete… — D. H. Lawrence
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by… — Steven Pinker
If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a… — Ayelet Waldman

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