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Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be. -- Truth Devour
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to. -- Joseph Sobran
The eye altering, alters all. -- William Blake
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature. -- Sylvia Earle
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. -- William James
Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not. -- LL Cool J
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. -- Dorothea Lange
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. -- David Suzuki
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much. -- Aaron Sanchez
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions. -- Les Paul
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. -- William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- Lee Iacocca
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. -- James Truslow Adams
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
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
People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. -- Robert Redford
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
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
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
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
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self. -- Diane Ackerman
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere. -- David Suzuki
My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos. -- Robert Edwards
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
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? -- Logan Lerman
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. -- Sam Harris
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
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. -- Lily Tomlin
Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior... -- Jerry Vlasak
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. -- Jessica Lange
By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives. -- Zig Ziglar
If it stays as it is I can't see it altering. -- Graham Taylor
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man. -- Bryan Cranston
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind. -- William James
Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level. -- Victor Garber
A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. -- Rachel Griffiths
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. -- James Norwood Pratt
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. -- Ian Hacking
We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world. -- Sheena Iyengar
You can't make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick. -- Jennifer Hudson
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records. -- Pat Benatar
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. -- Philip Gulley
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness -- Diane Keaton
Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
I am a constitutionalist. I believe in the constitution. I don't believe in altering the constitution. -- Andrew Breitbart
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. -- Brian Pinkerton
That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality. -- Roger Ross Williams
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. -- Jeanette Winterson
There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth. -- Roy Blunt
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance. -- Anthony Kiedis
I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills. -- Parker Posey
The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions. -- Bruce Lee
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. -- Carlos Castaneda
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. -- Ron Wyden
There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts. -- Eric Butterworth
For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball. -- William Blake
They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters. -- Greg Nickels
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used. -- David Bohm
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. -- Stephen King
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. -- Salvatore J. Cordileone
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything. -- Charlie Brooker
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. -- Michel de Montaigne
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. -- Ben Okri
If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. -- Stephen Hawking
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree. -- A.C. Grayling
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human. -- Alan D. Eames
The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor. -- Matthew Barnett
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. -- Nina Easton
We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering. -- Desiree Rogers
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates." -- Sarah MacLean
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates. -- Sarah MacLean
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. -- Henry David Thoreau
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. -- R.S. Guthrie
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order. -- James Cagney
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind. -- William James
I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral. -- David Horsey
The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul. -- G.K. Chesterton
In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. -- Gregory Maguire
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. -- Gregory Maguire
The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience. -- Judith McNaught
Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information. -- Julian Assange
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude. -- John C. Maxwell
Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world. -- Phyllis Curott
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work. -- Stephen Kinzer
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. -- Anne Lamott
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious. -- Patrick deWitt
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. -- William Shakespeare
Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering experiences, very much for the better. -- Tom Shales
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public. -- Steve Fowler
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily. -- Paul Fleischman
In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it. -- Peter Kropotkin
The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them -- Albert Bandura
For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature -- David Suzuki
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature. -- Emile Durkheim
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made. -- John Stuart Mill
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song. -- Ann Aguirre
Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust. -- C. J. Mahaney
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed. -- Max Beerbohm
Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel. -- Mark Stepnoski
I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream. -- Yvette Clarke
Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us. -- Chris Prentiss
When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly. -- Amy Sedaris
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. -- David Ricardo
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor. -- Thomas Carlyle
I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck." I stared at her. "I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking? -- James Patterson
If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset. -- David Brooks
When you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it's pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries. -- Rami Malek
The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand. -- Tonya Hurley
The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand." -- Tonya Hurley
I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression. -- M. Ward
We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart. -- Debbie Ford
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

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