Altering Quotes

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. (William James)
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The eye altering, alters all. View quote
William Blake
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society. View quote
David Ricardo
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors. View quote
Noah Webster
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside...what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society. View quote
Michael Foot
Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed. View quote
Max Beerbohm
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself--indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one. (Peter Drucker)
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. View quote
Philip Gulley
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much. View quote
Aaron Sanchez
I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her. But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point? View quote
Logan Lerman
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be. View quote
William James
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. View quote
William James
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. View quote
William James
We are more interested in the monthly trade returns than in Debrett, more preoccupied with what is said by the industrial correspondents and economic editors than what is said by William Hickey; more concerned with modernizing the machinery of government and the action that will need to follow the report of the Estimates Committee on the Civil Service than in altering the layout of Burke's Landed Gentry. View quote
Harold Wilson
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex, for a pattern of contradictions has arisen here as well. As major nuclear Powers have begun to negotiate arms reduction agreements, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction threatens to increase and conventional arms continue to be amassed in many parts of the world. As racism becomes recognized for the destructive force it is and as apartheid is being dismantled, new racial tensions are rising and finding expression in violence. Technological advances are altering the nature and the expectation of life all over the globe. The revolution in communications has united the world in awareness, in aspiration and in greater solidarity against injustice. But progress also brings new risks for stability: ecological damage, disruption of family and community life, greater intrusion into the lives and rights of individuals. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Interpretation thus presupposes a discrepancy between the clear meaning of the text and the demands of (later) readers. It seeks to resolve that discrepancy. The situation is that for some reason a text has become unacceptable; yet it cannot be discarded. Interpretation is a radical strategy for conserving an old text, which is thought too precious to repudiate, by revamping it. The interpreter, without actually erasing or rewriting the text, is altering it. But he can't admit to doing this. He claims to be only making it intelligible, by disclosing its true meaning. (Susan Sontag)
We now understand that every mental state and every mental disorder is a disorder of brain function. Treatments work by altering the structure and function of the brain. View quote
Eric Kandel
The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions. View quote
Bruce Lee
While economic theory in general may be defined as the theory of how an economic condition or an economic development is determined within an institutional framework, the welfare theory deals with how to judge whether one condition can be said to be better in some way than another and whether it is possible, by altering the institutional framework, to achieve a better condition than the present one. View quote
John Hicks
While economic theory in general may be defined as the theory of how an economic condition or an economic development is determined within an institutional framework, the welfare theory deals with how to judge whether one condition can be said to be better in some way than another and whether it is possible, by altering the institutional framework, to achieve a better condition than the present one. View quote
Kenneth Arrow