Altering Quotes

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

Life, Greatest, Human

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.
Ernest Hemingway

Great, Rather, Write

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

Mind, Human, Lives

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Two, Matter

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James

Life, Thinking, Alter

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

Life, Time, Takes

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia Woolf

Soul, Sun, Optimism

The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

History, America, Universe

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca

Mind, Greatest, Human

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams

Life, Attitude, Mind

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
David Suzuki

Human, Earth, Water

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
LL Cool J

Sometimes, Position

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Joshua Foer

Work, Art, Control

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.
Fred Upton

Change, Past, Energy

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.
Timothy Geithner

Forward, Path, Move

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
Aaron Sanchez

Great, Philosophy, Using

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?
Pieter Zeeman

Impossible, Result, Period

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
Paul Berg

Human, Kinds, Creating

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
Jeff Sessions

Marriage, Same, State

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Les Paul

Work, Different, Ideas

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