Quotes About Effect

What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.

Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.

My organism is a link in the immense chain of cosmic cause and effect, and I can only perceive its real sense by considering it in its real place, in its real connection with all the rest, that is to say by considering it from the point of view of the Universe, in my capacity as universal man and not particular man, in so far as I am similar to all other men and not in so far as I am different.

Stories abound... of governments' heavy reliance on focus groups and other forms of research to pre-test the likely political effect of policies. Not to test the integrity or efficacy of the polices; not to see whether it fits within a particular philosophical framework, merely to test its palatability or, to be brutally frank, its likely contribution to a government's prospects of re-election.

There is NO such thing as an Ergonomic (device) anything. I could give the best Ergonomic tool / device in the world and if you use it wrong, you will probably get worse.

Amazing how a simple satire on satire could have such an effect.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque lo que dicen o hacen le resulta atractivo a tu codicia. Este factor está oculto debido a su mera apariencia. Si dejas de escuchar sus palabras y contemplas el efecto, pronto verás que es así.

Il sorriso è la causa, non l'effetto, della felicità

To admit frankly, our capacity for evil hinges on our breaking through our pseudoinnocence. So long as we preserve our one-dimensional thinking, we can cover up our deeds by pleading innocent. This antediluvian escape from conscience is no longer possible. We are responsible for the effect of our actions, and we are also responsible for becoming as aware as we can of these effects.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death called strangeness, this snapping of all the customary little threads of cause and effect that are our moorings at other times. Slowly they all drew back from me step by step, until I was left there alone, cut off. ("All At Once, No Alice")

Call it fate, call it synchronicity: you never know what your actions are going to lead to, or the possibilities they can cause. There is a ripple effect to every action you take, intended or not.

Call it fate, call it synchronicity: you never know what your actions are going to lead to, or the possibilities they can cause. There is a ripple effect to every action you take, intended or not. I walked out of his office feeling better than I had in months.

And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.

I'll gie ye tae the lions for their denners." This threat has no effect upon the imps at all—for they are inured to empty threats—but its effect upon Betty is remarkable. She seizes my hand and cries in accents of dismay, "Oh Mummy, don't let her—don't let her, Mummy!" It takes several minutes to convince Betty that the children's mother has no intention of feeding her offspring to the lions.

I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

The chambermaid, who had been leaving the room, paused at the doorway. "Pardon but 'e's not abed, miss...er, milady. Lord St. Vincent work Mr. Rohan at first light, and is dragging him to an' from, asking questions and giving 'im lists. Put Mr. Rohan in the devil's own mood, 'e 'as." "Lord St. Vincent has that effect on people," Evie said dryly.

you can't impact something you don't touch.