Quotes about Modification

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Change is hard, but change is good.

A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.

Revelation is something communicated from infinite agency or reality to the finite mind. But (in Farrer's picture) this is not a matter of God just interrupting the process of the world to 'insert' something alien into the gap; it happens as a result of what happens in the world of finite agents or substances, as these finite realities are modified in their relations to one another, drawn into newly meaningful shapes.

That's all right with me, I like changes.

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

But there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification" which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.