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Quotes About Effect

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.
~ John Roberts
While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
~ Matt Bevin
What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.
~ Elliott Abrams
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
~ Henry Knox
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
~ James Buchan
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
~ Walter Murch
The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Seeing your work in print is exciting, especially when you're young. It's that feeling that you have some effect on the world outside of your immediate neighbourhood.
~ Shaun Tan
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
~ Noam Chomsky
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
~ Asghar Farhadi
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
~ Voltaire
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every cause produces more than one effect.
~ Herbert Spencer
I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.
~ Shyam Selvadurai
If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.
~ William Wyler
Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.
~ Robbie Lawler
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
~ Trip Hawkins
Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development?
~ Robert DeKeyser
Yet Strike remained certain her flight to Ross had been self-immolation, done purely for spectacular effect, a Charlottian form of sati.
~ Robert Galbraith
Visible photons now, the ones that make up the light that people use to see by, they have a higher frequency and more energy. One of those can have quite a noticeable effect. The really affluent ones though, the big spenders, are the X-ray and gamma photons. Each one of those carries a lot of energy around with it and they can really make their presence felt on their surroundings if they choose to interact.
~ Robert Gilmore
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
~ Robert McKee
I act uncommonly important when I read, look all around to see if people are noticing how cleverly someone there is improving his mind and wits; I slit open page after page at splendid leisure, do not even read any more but satisfy myself with having assumed the posture of a person immersed in a book. That is how I am: harebrained, and all for effect. I am vain, but my satisfaction with my vanity costs remarkably little.
~ Robert Walser
A mantra is nothing more than a collection of words strung together to create a positive effect.
~ Robin S. Sharma
According to strong AI, it is simply the algorithm that counts. It makes no difference whether that algorithm is being effected by a brain, an electronic computer, an entire country of Indians, a mechanical device of wheels and
~ Roger Penrose