Best Modifying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The era of biologically toxic wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation and harmonic electronic power generation from wind and solar systems with their adverse brain modifying effects that can bring on irritable and aggressive behaviors has made it a bad time to be a police officer.”

“Editing ‘truth’ is an oxymoron.”

Reality Truth Honesty Editing Fact Changing Oxymoron Modifying Altering

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It won't be an issue. The area we're modifying will have more breakout space, but I don't think it exceeds 1,000 feet. It's space we already have in the building, the public lobby area, which, in reality, we use now for breakouts and breakfast.”

Thinking Use Reality Space Issues Feet Building Areas Breakfast Exceed Modifying

Author:Steve Olson

“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 symptom of welfare.”

May Mean Pleasure Circumstances Function Intellect Reactions Secure Welfare Symptoms Modifying

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

Art Hands Kids Games Stuff Interesting Computer Enjoyed Programming Realised Keyboards Computer Games Modifying Interesting Stuff

Author:Aaron Koblin

“At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.”

Men Growth Opinion Judgment Prejudice Thirty Sixty Modifying

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.”

Kind Genius Highest Intensity Unusual Modifying

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.”

Study Buddhism Buddhist Who We Are Cosmology Restructuring Modifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.”

Mean Today Tomorrow Instruction Assessment Modifying

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“Modifying ourselves is a natural process because we are a product of nature and what we do is a product of nature. Therefore, if one day we have three time bigger brain and two hearts instead of one (because one is not enough) then this is all part of nature.”

Ifs Heart Two Enough Three Process Natural Brain Products One Day Bigger Three Times Modifying Two Hearts

Author:Jean-Marie Lehn

“When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.”

Want Mean Scene Concrete Modifying

Author:Abdellatif Kechiche

“The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.”

Action Influence Ambition Photography Avoiding Spontaneity Indication Instantaneous Modifying

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot.”

I Can Body Enjoy Attention Events Gratitude Letting Go Perceive Exploring Enjoy Life Hook Great Love Love And Respect Live Every Day Modifying Experiencing Everything

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn't actually do that much modifying, but we did enough to make it feel as if they fit in their own skin, and we got a lot of good input from them. They're a terrific cast. They worked really hard.”

Ifs Feels Hard Enough Opportunity Fit Skins Casts Terrific Input Modifying

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”

Kind Mean Art Self Today Artist Challenges Consciousness Materials Conscious Method Instruments Sensibility Self Conscious Modifying

Author:Susan Sontag

“I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on to us by our ancestors in light of our experiences, and the best a philosopher can do is to learn as much about what has been discovered in various empirical fields, and use it to try to craft an improved synthesis.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Use Light Can Do Known Fields Consequence Built Philosopher Various Crafts Ancestor Synthesis Modifying

Author:Philip Kitcher

“When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.”

People Littles Chance Behavior Justified Modifying

Author:Stanton Peele

“In all of these years, you know, the Obamacare bill itself had been written for 30 years and it's a Democrat wet dream. They've had it in a drawer modifying it for decades waiting for somebody to come along and actually implement it and sign it.”

Knows Years Dream Waiting Written Bills Democrat Decades Wet Obamacare Drawers Modifying Wet Dreams

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.”

Challenges Institutions Core Modifying

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”

Friendship Prayer Attitude Wise Praying Positive Attitude Insightful Modifying New Attitude

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”

“Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.”

Source: The Archaeology of Knowledge

“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.”

Ideas Force Sides Change Quality Learning Argument Destruction Valuable Acquire Destroying Rapids Modifying

Author:Charlie Munger

“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 by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.”

Time Portions Imitation Acquisition Altered Reacting Involuntary Modifying Repulsion

Author: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 vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.”

Source: A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge

“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 causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.”

Science Causes Taken Influence Planets Structure Surface Kingdoms Our Planet Geology Modifying

Book:Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation

Source: Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation

“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 statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.”

Life Has Beens Hands Life Is Felt Environment Our Lives Cutting Heard Mets Environmental Contact Statues Chisels Molding Modifying

Book:Exceptional Employee

Source: Exceptional Employee

“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 a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.”

“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 to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.”

Knows Want Trying Long Important Matter America Fall Sound Responsibility Roles Watches Missing Example Models Role Models Traps Cheesy Modifying Miss America

Author:Clay Aiken

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

Book Ideas Reading Rooms History Birth Library Thought Provoking Librarian Delivery Public Library Incense Library Books Libraries And Librarians Modifying Delivery Room

Book:Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

“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 done.”

Done Science Creation Evolution Impressed Modifying

Author: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 it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist”

Way Writing Mean Reality Today Lasts Film Higher Directors Equal Degrees Painter Novelists Makers Plastic Realism Composition Competitors Playwright Modifying

Author: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 those actions man has never had. This my Father-Mother holds inviolate. These cannot become man's except through modifying his actions until the reactions are their exact equal and opposite in equilibrium.”

Men Action Mother Father Given Balance Equal Opposites Reactions Inheritance Equilibrium Father Mother Modifying

Author: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 the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.”

Mind Humans Belief Christ Brain Worry Behavior Complexes Human Brain Captives Misguided Modifying Upgrading

Author: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 more user-friendly and efficient.”

Want Trying Enough Company Cameras Friendly Efficient Users Intrigued Sony Modifying User Friendly

Author: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 step to modifying a higher animal, even man.”

Ifs Men Humans Science Animal Steps Higher Cells Mice Modifying

Author: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 my own experiences. It's myth making.”

Ends Problem Memories My Own Results Myth Storytelling Accurate Revising Modifying

Author: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 that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.”

Men Has Beens Chance Practice Virtue Expectations Vices Accidents Factors Heroism Arrangements Temperament Good And Bad Perversity Modifying General Education

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.”

Self Individual Process Goal Growth Education Learning Greater Capacity Organization Complexity Integration Assistance Assisting Modifying Learning Organization

Author:Reuven Feuerstein

“... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.”

Reality Records Photography Cameras Valuable Attributes Robbing Modifying

Author: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 of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.”

Firsts Use Exercise Technique Impulse Evident Modifying Controlling Things

Author: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 of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.”

Men World Way Use Body Form Desire Turns Wish Sex Wealth Technology Normal Machines Plant Evolve Organs Bees Providing New Ways Enabling Reciprocate Modifying Use Of Technology

Author: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 patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.”

Persons Self Succeed Gains Patient Cooperation Justification Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Modifying Self Justification

Author: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 married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”