Quotes About Effect

The future has always been determined. What else could affect human actions, other than each individual's — unique and complex — inheritance and past experience? Who we are decides what we do — and what greater 'freedom' could anyone demand? If 'choice' wasn't grounded absolutely in cause and effect, what would decide its outcome? Meaningless random glitches from quantum noise in the brain.

The wonderful thing about hope is that it has absolutely no effect on anything. Just throw the switch.

It should go without saying that any cause is better served by doing something well than by doing it badly... In fact, it is better to do nothing for the cause at all than to do something that reflects badly on it... So the first principle of responsible activism should not be "Do something." Instead, one should take a page from medical ethics and "First, do no harm." (Harm to the cause, that is.)

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore Près du passé luisant demain est incolore Il est informe aussi près de ce qui parfait Présente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet Martwe jest tylko to co jeszcze nie zaznaÅ'o bytu W blaskach przeszÅ'oÅ›ci jutro nie ma kolorytu I nie zna form bo tylko to co siÄ™ wyÅ'ania Objawia caÅ'Ä… mÄ™kÄ™ i ksztaÅ't powoÅ'ania

Las causas no podemos reconocerlas nunca, todo lo que percibimos son los efectos. Lo que identificamos como causa en realidad no es más que un… presagio. Si suelto este lápiz, se caerá al suelo. Que el hecho de soltarlo constituya la causa de la caída puede creerlo un estudiante, pero yo no. Soltarlo es sencillamente el presagio infalible de la caída.

Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although already somewhat worn by use.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

La intervención militar en Michoacán tiene el efecto buscado de contener la espiral de homicidios pero el efecto no buscado de golpear más a Los Zetas que a la Familia Michoacana, dejando a esta quedarse con el campo y garantizar, con su propio ejercicio de captura del territorio, cierta estabilización de la violencia, incluso cierto clima de tranquilidad pública, pero en el contexto subterráneo de un más amplio dominio criminal.

Las leyes incumplibles, compendios éticos de sueños nacionales, tienen un efecto invisible profundamente corruptor sobre la cultura cívica

The Butterfly Effect was no accident; it was necessary.

The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

Psihologia noastr? vulgarizat? nu are alte explicaÈ›ii în afar? de parentalism È™i teorii ale dezvolt?rii pentru singur?tatea original? È™i efectul de izolare pe care îl imprim? chemarea daimonic?, în cazul lui Hitler, cât È™i al restului criminalilor înn?scuÈ›i.

I am a side effect of my desire to become me.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

the greatest harm from drug treatment is not so much the toxicity or side effects as it is the suppression effect.

Because an interferential effect takes place between the two graphite gloves, a complex of frequencies was created in the body that included each frequency by itself as well as the sum of the two frequencies and their difference.

Leadership has an impact on people's commitment, their desire to stay or leave, their willingness to put forth more discretionary effort, and their inclination to take personal initiative and responsibility. Bad leaders have a dampening effect on these things, and exemplary leaders have just the opposite effect. What sort of difference do you want to achieve through your leadership? The choice is yours.

Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.