Quotes About Effect

Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.

Hitler had described the Queen Mother as 'the most dangerous woman in Europe', because of her effect on the national mood; her daughter was not too far behind.

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things.

Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.

Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

It is also a part of the cosmic law that what you say and do determines what happens in your life.

Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the story done its job? Is it then a good story? If the story produces an effect other than the intended one, is it then a bad story? Can a story be said to produce an effect at all? Can a story actually do anything at all?

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

If you hadn't been there, the teaching and learning would have been the same.

I went back on a daily basis until I saw IT. The album cover, the greatest album cover of all time (tied with Highway 61 Revisited). All it said was Meet the Beatles. That was exactly what I wanted to do. Those four half-shadowed faces, rock 'n' roll's Mount Rushmore, and . . . THE HAIR . . . THE HAIR. What did it mean? It was a surprise, a shock. You couldn't see them on the radio. It is almost impossible to explain today the effect of . . . THE HAIR.

All it takes is a few words to make a strong impression, good or bad.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Painting, when we have allowed for the pleasure of imitation, can only affect simply by the images it presents; and even in painting, a judicious obscurity in some things contributes to the effect of the picture.

For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.

Yet so it is. By some, ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale. How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.

She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge.

You make me want to stab you. I have that effect on many people. How is it you're still alive? I'm hard to kill.

I've seen a lot of political violence in my life. I know what it looks like. I know what it smells like. I know what motivates young men to do it. I've talked to them about it. I know what victims feel like, you know? I know the abominable effect it has on politics. I know how intractable it is.

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.