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Quotes About Effect

Amid the ashes of stratified society, the egalitarian consensus can arise. But for that to happen, Fritz warns, the disaster must be generalized. Crises of more limited scope tend to have the opposite effect.
~ Sarah Chayes
Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
~ Sarah Dessen
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over...
~ Sarah Dessen
Internet search for "the McGurk effect." Click on the first video you see.
~ Scott Adams
A text structured by the scapegoat effect cannot make a theme of this; [and in turn] a text that makes a theme of the scapegoat cannot be structured by this effect. In the gospels, Christ is so obviously the scapegoat of everyone [in the text] that he can no longer be the scapegoat of the text, just as the sixteenth-century witch isn't the scapegoat of the twentieth-century historian.
~ Scott Cowdell
Tot a?a cum galbenul este intotdeauna asociat cu lumina, se poate spune ?i c? albastrul aduce cu el ?i un principiu al întunericului. Aceast? culoare are un efect special ?i aproape indescriptibil asupra ochiului. Pe scara culorilor este una puternic?, îns? de partea negativ?, ?i la maximum de puritate este, cum s-ar zice, o nega?ie stimulatoare. Aspectul s?u este deci un fel de contradic?ie între excita?ie ?i calm.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The unconscious evaluation of everything does appear to be a very old and primitive effect that existed long before we developed conscious and deliberate modes of thought.
~ John A. Bargh
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed.
~ John Adams
What's more, random events can mimic nonrandom ones. Even the most sophisticated scientists can have difficulty telling the difference between a real effect and a random fluke. Randomness can make placebos seem like miracle cures, or harmless compounds appear to be deadly poisons, and can even create subatomic particles out of nothing.
~ John Brockman
yet cancer rates in New England are higher than in Colorado—an inverse effect.
~ John Brockman
The income-tax law in toto has virtually no defenders, even though most fair-minded students of the subject agree that its effect over the half century that it has been in force has been to bring about a huge and healthy redistribution of wealth.
~ John Brooks
Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
~ John Bunyan
Legislatures and parliaments can get together and pretend to change God's laws, but it has no effect on eternal truth.
~ John Bytheway
To my mind, if the cosmos does not know the significance of life, then it is not God; and if there were no God beyond the cosmos, then all human history would be like dancing to the blind and singing to the deaf; and all noble thought and action would be like kissing a cold statue. I believed in a personal God, not because I wanted to project my personality upon God, but because to deprive Him of this attribute would be making the effect greater than the cause.
~ John C.H. Wu
If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.
~ John Calvin
Our opinion on palaeoart is that subtle references and hints of anatomical features are more realistic, more in line with what we see in living animals. Portrayed with style and in an appropriate setting, they can leave a more distinct effect on the viewer.
~ John Conway
Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.
~ John Deacon
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
~ J. G. Farrell
Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.
~ Walter Russell
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
~ Sienna Miller
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.
~ Aeriel Miranda
a distinction between events to motivate the claim that cause and effect might come apart.
~ Edward Feser
I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
~ Edward G. Rendell