Quotes About Effect

If you want to know why this life is like it is, you should know that it is because of your last life. If you want to know what your future life will be, you should look at the way you are living in this life.

I would read them my essay on Self-Control," Miss Hospice murmured, "if you thought it would have any effect." "It would probably make them infinitely worse. It might even kill them outright. And then it would be murder," Miss Valley said. Miss Hospice smiled sedately.

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect — 30% of medicine is showbiz.

A word spoken in Polish has quite a different effect than when spoken in that "foreign" tongue, German.

How strange that her absence would have no effect whatsoever on the things of this world. Proving that they were not just things, she thought, proving that they were spirit surrounded by a shell of substance, just like her.

Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains why they get so desperate when their choices are challenged (or corrected) by copy-editors legislating according to a "house style".

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lost; for want of the battle the war was lost; for want of the war the kingdom was lost; and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

We all want to believe that the key to making an impact on someone lies with the inherent quality of the ideas we present. But in none of these cases did anyone substantially alter the content of what they were saying. Instead, they tipped the message by tinkering, on the margin, with the presentation of their ideas,.....

power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.

are many studies that say they can't find a statistically significant effect of some policy change," Hoxby says. "That doesn't mean that there wasn't an effect. It just means that they couldn't find it in the data. In this study, I

If more than two percent of the neighborhood goes to prison, Clear concluded, the effect on crime starts to reverse.

We all want to believe that the key to making an impact on someone lies with the inherent quality of the ideas we present.

Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.

The greatest success is how much impact was made

Success is a result not an action.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

A person should consider how things begin. A particular beginning results in a particular end. I

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

You were back again into the old mysteries of the Jewish collective habit of thinking for effect, for protection of an amorphous, disunified ocean.

A dead program normally does a lot less damage than a crippled one.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude.

He now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected.

The conversation had left her feeling more disturbed than ever. She had bared her soul about the tragic death of her parents and its effect on her, a topic she was