Quotes About Effect

And yet I know that, because free will is an illusion, it's all predetermined who will descend into akinetic mutism and who won't. There's nothing anyone can do about it; you can't choose the effect the Predictor has on you. Some of you will succumb and some of you won't, and my sending this warning won't alter those proportions. So why did I do it? Because I had no choice.

but she can't deny the realities of modern neuropharmacology: if her brain is flooded with oxytocin every time she's training Sophonce digients, it's going to have an effect on her feelings toward them whether she wants it to or not.

Humans had developed a sequential mode of awareness, while heptapods had developed a simultaneous mode of awareness. We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.

Humans had developed a sequential mode of awareness, while heptapods had developed a simultaneous mode of awareness. We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose. I

In this regard, I like to quote a favorite aphorism from Oxford art historian Edgar Wind: "Mediocrity which claims to be intense has a peculiarly repulsive effect.

During the New Deal, liberals recognized that the ballot box and elected branches are generally the appropriate engines of social reform, and liberals used both to spectacular effect - instituting profound social changes that remain deeply ingrained in society today.

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

Obama has spoken out a few times since on race, but without much effect.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

As man acts, God reacts.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

Jad said, The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters. Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.

Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.

some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.

Emotion is energy in motion. When you move energy, you create effect. If you move enough energy, you create matter. Matter is energy conglomerated. Moved around. Shoved together. If you manipulate energy long enough in a certain way, you get matter. Every Master understands this law. It is the alchemy of the universe. It is the secret of all life.

My law is the law of cause and effect, not the law of We'll See.

If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.

the sellers of these 'structured products' boasted that securitization was having the effect of allocating risk 'to those best able to bear it'. Only later did it turn out that risk was being allocated to those least able to understand it.