Quotes about Modification

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

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

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

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

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. We are surrounded from babyhood by familiar farm and domestic animals, fruits and trees and vegetables. Where do they come from? Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? No, the truth is quite different. They are, most of them, made by us.

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.

One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes.