Orison Swett Marden

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

American Writer

William James

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

American Philosopher

Halle Berry

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

American Actress

Samuel L. Jackson

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

Actor

Rick Riordan

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.

American Author

Frances Arnold

We've been modifying the biological world at the level of DNA for thousands of years. Somehow there is this new fear of what we already have been doing and that fear has limited our ability to provide real solutions.

American Scientist

Nikola Tesla

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Inventor

Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Nicholas Sparks

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

Herbert Spencer

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

English Philosopher

Use 'modify' when making changes to improve something's function or effectiveness.

Adjust Improvements

'Modify' suggests small, gradual changes rather than complete overhauls.

Subtle Tinkering

When something is modified, mention the original state and the specific changes for clarity.

Before and After

In grammar, 'modify' often implies adding information that specifies or restricts meaning.

Grammarly Restrict

Use 'modify' to express adding details that refine the meaning of a word or phrase.

Detail Addition

'Modify' in tech suggests small changes to improve functionality or address issues.

Tech Tweaks

In computing, modifying often refers to correcting errors, or 'bugs', in software.

Bug Fixes

Scientific modification usually involves precise and controlled changes to organisms or materials.

Precision Changes

Discussing modifications in biology may bring up ethics, such as with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Ethical Concerns

 that we can't use position feedback to correct the motion during execution. There simply isn't enough time. Instead, what the quad can do is perform the maneuver blindly, observe how it finishes the maneuver, and then use that information to modify its behavior so that the next flip is better. Similar to the diver and the vaulter,

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 companion animals and that's what makes them a little bit trickier to train because we haven't asked them for thousand units of years to actually change their behavior that is more conducive to our lifestyle yeah that's right Jackson but if an animal can D be domesticated we can modify it pretty

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 filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.

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 world that I play in now is technology but it's technology for the sake of humanity and what that means is how do you take something and crack it open and modify it and zip tie it or duct tape it back together and maybe reprogram it in a way so that it accomplishes a

Making the impossible...

 And why only computers? We can just play with papers. Paper world is interesting to play with. Here, I'm taking a part of a document, and putting over here a second part from a second place, and I'm actually modifying the information that I have over there.

The thrilling potential...

 that add information about other parts of a sentence, which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. That happens because the modifying words,

How misused modifiers...

 The finding supported Darwin's theory, by showing that facial feedback modifies the neural processing of emotional content in the brain, in a way that helps us feel better when we smile. Smiling stimulates our brain reward mechanism

The hidden power of...

 is not modified, is not altered by those images. Likewise, behind every single thought there is the bare consciousness, pure awareness. This is the nature. It cannot be tainted intrinsically with hatred or jealousy because then,

The habits of happiness...

 find this wolf pretty hard to spot but that's not how of caribou see the world and to get an idea of what they see I'm gonna take a picture using this uu camera this specially modified camera

Caribou Spot Wolves...

 to get a clearer signal. Increasing this background neural activity is intended to help you process weak auditory inputs. But it can also modify your baseline for silence—