Modification Quotes

81 quotes by 76 authors

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin — Bill Watterson
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… — Grant Morrison
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and… — H.G. Wells
Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs… — Stefan Petrucha
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,… — Charles Darwin
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… — Charles Darwin
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or… — Edmund Burke
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. — Abraham Lincoln
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. — Edmund Burke
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism… — Thomas Huxley
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… — David D. Burns
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular… — Albert Murray
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for… — James Gleick
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. — Publilius Syrus
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began… — Henry Flynt
In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask… — Edward Grey
Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of… — Rudolf Hiferding
Corsetry is a body modification. — Dita Von Teese
Body modification does not change character — Connor Sinnett

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