Modifying Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and… — Gerald Brenan
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the… — Charles Lyell
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life… — Orison Swett Marden
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is… — Clay Aiken
I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already… — William Temple
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of the ractions to… — Walter Russell
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring… — Mark Batterson
I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them… — Mike Figgis
If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a… — Erwin Chargaff
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising… — Li-Young Lee
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable… — Philip Jones Griffiths
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out… — Leo Ornstein
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways… — Marshall McLuhan
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… — Thomas Szasz
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or… — Aleister Crowley
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,… — Harlow Shapley
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the… — Edward Thorndike

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