Top 203 Modify Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

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

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.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.

The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

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.

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

Growing up, I fluctuated between wanting to modify my looks and embracing them.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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 will immediately feel overwhelmed.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

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 in.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Do I believe in plastic surgery? Yes, if something is wrong and you can modify it. For certain people, it's right.

Be it television or film, or theatre, I can modify myself, develop any character and slip into any role.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

After so many surgeries, I had to modify my game. I know what I can and can't do in order to keep performing for a long period of time.

I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

When you're playing a character in a movie, you can add your own touch to it and modify it to suit your style.

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.

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.

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

When I agreed to play Ravana, I only had one condition that I get to modify the dialogues. One has to maintain the purity of the text, but the dramatization and the emotion behind it can be toyed with.