Alterations Quotes

• If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

  Ian Bogost

  Able, Start The Day, Revelations

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• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

  Faith Baldwin

  Change, Time, Attitude

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

  Dario Robleto

  Opposites, Impulse, Constructive

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• You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Attitude, Reality, Trying

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• The world is what you make of it, friend.  If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

  Linda Hunt

  World, Fit, Ifs

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• Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

  Joe Biden

  Order, Profound, Historical

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• An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

  Edwin Land

  Business, Acceptance, Science

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• When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Hate, Blessing

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.75, Ravenio Books

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• It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

  Paul Davies

  Numbers, Design, Evolution

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Change, People, Outsiders

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• That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.

  James Madison

  Errors, Government, Sides

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.204

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• Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.55, Penguin

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• For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

  Galileo Galilei

  Generations, Noble, Earth

  Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

  Marcel Proust

  Reading, Heart, Reality

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• Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Achievement, Contentment, Outcomes

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.250, M-y books ltd

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• Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Needs, Libertarian, Action

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

  John Bradshaw

  Powerful, Feelings, Way

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.124, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Doe, Chemistry

  "The Scientific Basis of Medicine Annual Reviews", Vol. 1969, Athlone Press, quoting "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift", Coper, H., Herken, H. (1963), 1969.

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• For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Ambition, Emotional, Order

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• Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

  Giordano Bruno

  Lying, Differences, Evil

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.

  Eric A. Havelock

  Years, Greek, Uniforms

  "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

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• Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Thinking, Names, Political

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.

  Meher Baba

  Mean, Destiny, Views

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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