Quotes About Effect

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous.

My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. Moreover, once sensitized in this manner, one numbs only slowly, if at all . . .

I must concentrate on the routine or it will not have the desired effect. Indian clubs are not only for strength, core stability, flexibility, they work also at the neural level—you know this word?—they build the connection between the body and the mind.

We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform, by reason that effect and performance are not at all in our power, and that, indeed, we are masters of nothing but the will, in which, by necessity, all the rules and whole duty of mankind are founded and established.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Change the cause, and you change the effect. It is just that simple.

It's easy to make your life into stories. But it's harder to sustain real memories…The difference between a story and a real memory, the real experience has a smell and is dirty and is not wrapped up in simple endings. The real memories are what effects me now. Things can appear that you don't want to see, where you're not safe, and even if you don't actually unleash the memories, the effect is there. It's in your body.

Nada como la química para domar la lírica. Pero no se me vaya a aficionar al truco, que el licor es como el matarratas o la generosidad: cuanto más se usa, menos efecto tiene.

Mit dem Schnaps ist es wie mit dem Rattengift oder der Großzügigkeit: Je häufiger die Anwendung, desto geringer die Wirkung.

When something happens, something else always happens.

The tenderness of his mouth barely touching hers and his drawl combined to send a heat flash through her whole body. If that brief contact created such an effect, a relationship might burn down the house.

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening — big or small — can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together.

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

I love being in the band, I love being that person and it's such a beautiful and ridiculous adventure but that has an effect mentally, good and bad, just from being the age we were.

We realize our messages are influential.

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.

As a private individual, it's probably not worth having a foreign policy of your own at all. Not unless you own at least a small boat with which to try to effect it. Probably two boats is the minimum, actually. And a gun.

The Buddha taught that this is like this, because that is like that. You see? Because you smile, I am happy. This is like this, therefore that is like that.

Regression effects, in other words, serve to "punish the administration of reward, and to reward the administration of punishment."21

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.