Modification Quotes

“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.”
― Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

“Erasure is as important as writing. Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. . . . The best method of correction is to put aside for a time what we have written, so that when we come to it again it may have an aspect of novelty, as of being another man's work; in this way we may preserve ourselves from regarding our writings with the affection that we lavish upon a newborn child.”
― Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

“At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.”
― Zoe Cruz, Beastia

“Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system.”
― Steven Magee

“Laws are designed by corporate governments to control the behaviors of their mass populations.”
― Steven Magee

“Think of how detached we are from nature. How we have to do so much to it before we can bottle it and put the name 'wild' on it.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Modifications of reality are achieved through the actions.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“You cannot teach one message to different people with different abilities to understand in the same way. That is why the inner diversity of deep philosophical consideration is inevitable. Each diverse modification of the same philosophical doctrine is intended for a group of people with similar abilities to understand.”
― Elmar Hussein