Quotes About Effect

I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.

I saw the police thriller The Blue Lamp' and remember realizing the power that Dirk Bogarde as the gangster exerted over the audience simply by his expressions in the close-ups. I could see how the people around me reacted to him and realized that I wanted to have the same effect.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

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.

The basis of karma is simple: you are the source of all your baggage.

What is karma? Literally, the word means action.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

A miracle is 'an Effect produced contrary to the usual Coarse or Order of Nature, by the unusual Interposition of some Intelligent Being Supeiror to Men.

A miracle is an effect produced contrary to the usual course or order of nature, by the unusual interpolation of some intelligent being superior to men.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

No, I'm saying that you have got to look and think symptom, not disease. If she's a symptom, then ask, where is the disease?

He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember.

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

A single drop, though it falls into an ocean, will yet cause a ripple

Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.

post hoc ergo propter hoc…after this, therefore because of this.