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Quotes About Effect

The key to leadership is in the rippling waves.
~ Robert Jordan
She could still hear Siuan going on about what she called the Law of Unintended Consequences, stronger than any written law. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.
~ Robert Jordan
The candidate gene approaches show that the effect of a single gene on a behavior is typically tiny. In other words, having the "warrior gene" variant of MAO probably has less effect on your behavior than does believing that you have it.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
The authors first replicated this effect, showing that watching a short film clip of something physically disgusting made subjects more morally judgmental—unless they had washed their hands after watching the film. Another study suggests that the washing decreases emotional arousal, as it decreased the diameter of subjects' pupils.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Secure-attachment 7Rs show more generosity than average. Thus 7R has something to do with generosity—but its effect is entirely context dependent.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Die Wirkung eines großen und ganzen Mannes ist wie die der Schönheit: sie verträgt so wenig eine Leugnung, wie man einen Ballon anbohren darf oder einer Statue einen Hut auf den Kopf setzen.
~ Robert Musil
For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
~ Robert Penn Warren
A good title can save a book
~ Larry McMurtry
When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
~ Laurell K Hamilton
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan. I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one. He Spread his hands wide. My deepest apologies. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. 
~ Laurie R. King
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~ William Irwin Thompson
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.
~ Thomas Young
When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.
~ Lazare Carnot
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
~ Frederick Soddy
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.
~ Aristotle
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
~ Corliss Lamont
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
~ Ann Druyan
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
~ Henri Poincare
Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.
~ Bernard Wolfe, Limbo
Keep a smile, It will enrich your profile.Don't be sad, It only effects bad.
~ Vishal Bhojwani, SPARK
Sólo la mitad de la acción es obra nuestra: el principio y el final, la causa y el efecto, pertenecen a los dioses.
~ zweig stefan
You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
~ Aimee Bender