Modify Quotes

118 quotes by 104 authors

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly.… — Halle Berry
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to… — Robert Winston
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain
Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so. — J. Michael Bailey
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… — Abraham Lincoln
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our… — John Stuart Mill
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. — David Souter
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… — William James
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the… — Roger Bannister
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. — Quintilian
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims… — Massad Ayoob
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we… — Tony Robbins
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to… — James Madison
Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing… — Glenn Murcutt
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving… — Namkhai Norbu
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy… — Neil Gaiman

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