#altering

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argument #challenge #changing #changing-your-mind #controversial

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths. I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history. How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world. I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history. How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world. ↗

— Patricia J. Williams

#children #expectation #language #life-altering #stereotypes

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

— Les Paul

#cases #different #different directions #directions #go

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

— William James

#alter #altering #attitudes #being #discovery

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

— William James

#altering #attitudes #beings #human #human beings

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

— Aaron Sanchez

#cook #great #i #ingredients #like

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

#altering #been #changing #defined #ever

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

— David Suzuki

#activity #altering #carbon #cycle #earth

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

#concerns #creating #environment #evolution #fears

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

#earth #first #kinds #matter #near