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Quotes About Effect

There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.
~ Bruce McGill
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
~ Mo Udall
I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
~ David Hanson
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
~ Tao Lin
I'm just trying to affect the game in some way whenever I get an opportunity. If that's stealing a base, making a catch, beating out a double play, whatever it may be.
~ Mookie Betts
This stadium is the history of football, the most important arena in Italy. Stepping into San Siro always has an effect on you.
~ Leonardo Bonucci
reaping the whirlwind:
~ Thomas Frank
Is uniformity [of opinion] attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is over the lowest class of mankind that government by terror is intended to operate, and it is on them that it operates to the worst effect. They have sense enough to feel they are the objects aimed at; and they inflict in their turn the examples of terror they have been instructed to practise.
~ Thomas Paine
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
~ Thomas Reid
God's method in calling sinners may vary, but the effect is still the same.
~ Thomas Watson
the passage of this book to those ready for the instruction will attract the attention of such as are prepared to receive the Teaching. And, likewise, when the pupil is ready to receive the truth, then will this little book come to him, or her. Such is The Law. The Hermetic Principle of Cause and Effect, in its aspect of The Law of Attraction, will bring lips and ear together —pupil and book in company.
~ Three Initiates
Toda causa tiene su efecto; todo efecto tiene su causa; todo sucede de acuerdo con la ley; azar no es sino un nombre para una ley no reconocida; hay muchos planos de causación, pero nada escapa a la ley. El Kybalión.
~ Three Initiates
Everything happens according to Law; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.
~ Three Initiates
La felicidad, –y también la tristeza–, no se cruzan en nuestro camino por casualidad o accidente, ni se deben a que logremos apaciguar a algún ser superior imaginario. Como todas las cosas, en el universo la felicidad surge debido a causas específicas. Si creamos las causas para la felicidad, la felicidad resultante llegará. Este es un proceso sistemático de causa y efecto que se explicará en capítulos posteriores.
~ Thubten Chodron
There's a very strong connection between the body and the mind. In Tibetan tantric yoga, we take advantage of that strong connection: by concentrating strongly on the body's psychic channels we can affect the mind accordingly. Therefore, even in everyday life, the food you eat and the other things your body touches have an effect on your mind.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Emptiness does not imply non-existence; emptiness implies the emptiness of intrinsic existence, which necessarily implies dependent origination. Dependence and interdependence is the nature of all things; things and events come into being only as a result of causes and conditions. Emptiness makes the law of cause and effect possible.
~ Thupten Jinpa
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
You have to hit people over the head to make them notice, and I did it.
~ Terence Trent D'Arby
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.
~ Drummond Money-Coutts
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
~ Martin Amis
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
~ Florence Nightingale
The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?
~ Nicholas Stern