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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Life
Attitude
Generation
Human Being
My Generation
Attitudes
Alter
Altering
Greatest
His
Discovery
Human
Being
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
Believe
Changes
Sun
Altering
Optimism
Forever
Ageing
Aspect
Hence
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Life
Art
Time
Photography
Holding
Out
Out Of Time
Instant
Takes
Altering
Still
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
Love
Loneliness
Thoughts
Emotions
Enjoy
Thinking
Others
Our
Everything
Pleasure
Eat
Purpose
Foods
Feel
Like
Altering
Read
Another
Friendships
Person
Form
Fleeting
Certain
Avoid
Specific
Presence
Consciousness
Tongues
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
Mind
Attitudes
Alter
Altering
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Lives
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
People
Gone
Aggressive
Universe
Way
States
About
Had
Nobody
Altering
Known
Than
America
Capacity
United
United States
United States Of America
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca
Generation
Mind
My Generation
Attitudes
Alter
Altering
Greatest
Discovery
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Lives
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James
Life
Man
Thinking
Alter
Altering
His
I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
Aaron Sanchez
Great
Too Much
Too
Philosophy
Like
Altering
Them
Much
Ingredients
Cook
Using
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
Memories
Change
Emotions
Important
Relationships
Intimate
Delicate
Shape
Self
Fail
Most
Altering
Ultimate
Brain
Souvenir
Us
Foster
Bonds
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
Obligation
Events
Invention
Assume
Presumption
Rather
Write
Writer
Altering
His
Truly
Than
Which
Them
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
Man
Generation
Mind
My Generation
Simply
Alter
Altering
Greatest
His
Discovery
I don't believe in altering the Constitution.
Andrew Breitbart
Constitution
Believe
Altering
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
People
Matter
First
Other
Relative
Earth
Telling
Kinds
Altering
Surface
Near
Second
Two
Position
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
Technology
Our
Ability
Properties
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Look
Altering
Chemical
Geological
Scientists
Decades
Human
Experts
Us
Warned
Amplified
Biological
Numbers
I would say that my idea of style and my taste are the same as when I began: They express my deep appreciation of all that is simple and linear... I always want to keep up with the times but without altering the essential characteristics of my philosophy.
Giorgio Armani
Appreciation
Simple
Style
Philosophy
Say
Characteristics
Would
Idea
Altering
Without
Always
Linear
Began
Up
Times
Taste
Same
Essential
Want
Deep
Express
Keep
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Ian Hacking
Biology
Wing
Taken
Ideas
Altering
Without
Problematic
Molecular
Things
Core
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
Every
Changing
State
Way
Defined
States
Has-Been
Institution
Altering
Judges
Been
Same
Legislature
Sat
Now
United
Fundamental
Ever
United States
Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.
John Eccles
Changes
Medium
Relative
Composition
Concentration
Altering
Readily
Effected
Across
External
I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it is about altering the places we choose to live.
Kameron Hurley
Travel
Space
Live
Biology
Our
Ourselves
About
Structures
Attitudes
Altering
Understand
Very
Expansion
Just
Just As Much
Space Travel
Places
Social
Much
Choose
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Les Paul
Work
Those
Cases
Directions
Ideas
Altering
Go
Different
Different Directions
Many
There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.
Mickalene Thomas
Art
Great
Me
Creative
People
Transformation
Ourselves
Intriguing
Also
Alter
Altering
How
Very
Artifice
Want
Bigger
Capable
Themselves
Interests
Element
Butt
Desire
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
Result
Impossible
Circumstances
Distorted
Some
Disturbing
More
Factors
Had
Period
Altering
Maxwell
Just
Vibration
Which
Noted
Succeeded
Held
Really
Therefore
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
Business
People
Own
Heritage
More
More And More
Development
Particular
Altering
Becoming
How
Dominance
Aware
Lives
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Back
Distorting
Folding
Feature
Prime
Altering
Geology
Beds
Upheaval
Granite
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