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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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Wings, Population

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• A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

  David Ricardo

  Real, Wages, Reason

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.31, London, J. Murray

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• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lying, Reality, Deceit

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

  Michelle Richmond

  Book, People, Listening

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