Quotes About Effect

By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that by sharing such things I might be able to avoid them or, if need be, recognize them when they occurred. By talking about them to her children, she was also acknowledging that they were real and that they had an effect on us too, that things like this shaped a family, not just the person they happened to.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

It is the best of times because we have entered a period, if we can bring ourselves to pay attention, of great clarity as to cause and effect.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those laws to achieve an effect. One which might easily appear magical in the eyes of the primitive.

If you have to tell someone you are furious, and then, furthermore, that you mean it, your fury has failed to achieve its desired effect.

the more you believe in the cause, the better the effect.

The observer effect in quantum physics states that where you direct your attention is where you place your energy. As a consequence, you affect the material world.

The observer effect in quantum physics states that where you direct your attention is where you place your energy.

If the placebo effect is a function of how a thought can change physiology—we could call it mind over matter—then perhaps we should examine our thoughts and how they interact with our brains and our bodies.

Could it be that many drugs or even surgeries actually work better because we're repeatedly primed, educated, and conditioned to believe in their effects—when if it weren't for the placebo effect, those drugs might not work as well or at all?

Compreensivelmente, talvez, os fumegantes estavam sempre à beira da histeria. Mas havia uma questão do tipo ovo ou galinha nesse fato: será que eles entravam em pânico porque seus corpos não paravam de soltar fumaça, ou será que soltavam fumaça porque suas mentes estavam em constante estado de pânico?

The problem with sentient AIs, Kaspowitz said often, was that you could never trust anything they said as genuine. All was calculation for effect.

Hay que cuidarse de confundir causa y efecto, pero en especial de hacer depender el barómetro de los acontecimientos atmosféricos, pero a la causa a la que debemos estar especialmente atentos es a los correlatos, a las relaciones que surgen como resultados de actividades que tienen efectos colaterales y conjuntos.

Antidepressant drugs that increase serotonin in the brain have the same modest effect, in clinical trials, as drugs that reduce serotonin in the brain.

One study of depressed people in Norway found that a program like this moved people on average 4.5 points on the depression scale—more than double the effect of chemical antidepressants.

As John was proving how this effect plays out in humans, other scientists were investigating it in other animals. For example, Professor Martha McClintock separated out lab rats. Some were raised in a cage, alone. Others were raised in groups. The isolated rats developed eighty-four times the number of breast cancer tumors as the rats who had a community.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Blue: as yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with it. This color has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. As a hue it is powerful - but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.