Altering Quotes

What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning? - Henry Miller

We talk about it everyday. Whenever we get out of our guard play, we look to Derek and Rodney because they control what we do. It's not even about points. It's about controlling the boards, altering shots and all the things they do that you don't see in the stats. That's why we're successful. - Greg Smith

We really don't know the number. We're probably getting close to a point where we might find out. We haven't seen any sign that demand is faltering due to these high prices. - Phil Flynn

We kept going back-and-forth between dominating and faltering -- but there were many more good plays than bad. - George Sullivan

We have had a cautious stance on [the PC group] since September, but we are lowering our rating on Compaq ... for a different reason: its turnaround is faltering, despite the low valuation on price/sales. - Andrew Neff

We have decided to take the unusual step and reduce our rating on WHR to Sell to reflect what we strongly believe is the potential for significant near-term downside risk due to a series of massive changes rapidly altering the historic ways the appliance business is conducted in North America... The net result of this change will, in our opinion, be a slow, but steadily building decline in market share for WHR, accompanied by steadily increasing pricing pressures, which we believe could far disproportionately impact Whirlpool versus other manufacturers. - Nicholas Heymann

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

Two important profit drivers, namely cost cuts and loan loss provisions, are faltering, and that is a trend to watch for the whole banking sector. - Pieter Wind