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Quotes About Effect

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.
~ Greil Marcus
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
~ George R. R. Martin
This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
~ Algernon Sidney
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
~ John Roberts
Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
~ David Souter
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
~ Edward Lawrie Tatum
Wörter können wie Gift wirken. […] "Sie auch hier?" So ein harmloses Sätzchen, das aus einem freundlichen Mund das genaue Gegenteil besagen könnte. Wer das Wort verabreicht und wie, entscheidet über die Wirkung: Gift oder Gabe, Gnade oder Gnadenstoß.
~ Unknown
In contrast to primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions are centered on the effect that infants' actions – often by chance – produce in the external world. Essentially, secondary circular reactions aim at reproducing the effect by repeating the action that generated this effect in the first place.
~ Unknown
Is your mom afraid something will happen to you?" "I," said Harriet, with absolute confidence, "am something that happens to other people.
~ Unknown
An analysis of more than 30 university research studies on happiness and health by Dutch researcher Dr. Ruut Veenhoven showed that being chronically unhappy has the same effect on longevity as smoking cigarettes daily. On average, the effects of unhappiness cut your life expectancy by six years.
~ Valorie Burton
Woorden kunnen nietige stukjes arsenicum zijn: ze worden ongemerkt ingeslikt en lijken geen uitwerking te hebben, maar na enige tijd is de gifwerking er toch.
~ Victor Klemperer
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
~ Edward Weston
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~ William Hazlitt
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
~ Phil Crosby
In this business, it is about making an impact.
~ Randy Orton
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.
~ M.I.A.
TACKLE the ROOT CAUSE not the EFFECT.
~ Haresh Sippy
When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
~ Dale Ludwig
Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.
~ Linda Fisher Thornton
every action has a result.
~ Pema Chodron
In life as in history the unexpected lies waiting, grinning from around corners. Only with hindsight are we wise about cause and effect.
~ Penelope Lively
The cast is assembling; the plot thickens. Mother, Gordon, Sylvia. Jasper. Lisa. Mother will drop out before long, retiring gracefully and with minimum fuss after an illness in 1962. Others, as yet unnamed, will come and go. Some more than others; one above all. In life as in history the unexpected lies waiting, grinning from around corners. Only with hindsight are we wise about cause and effect.
~ Penelope Lively