Quotes About Affects

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.

nothing—nothing—affects our experience except how we flow our energy. NOTHING!!!

and in contrast to earlier stage of epidemic disease now affects many schoolchildren;

In all the occupations throughout the United States and around the world, from Rio de Janeiro to Ljubljana, from Oakland to Amsterdam, even in cases when they lasted only a short time, the participants experienced the power of creating new political affects through being together.

God is and has been for me, rather, the Mystery of InterBeing that surrounds me and animates me. But it is a Mystery that is also personally present to me. When I say "personally present," I mean that I have sensed that this Mystery touches me and affects me in ways that I can, and must, describe as personal.

In attachment theory, the regulation of affects serves to foster the emergence of self-regulation from coregulation. Or, put into the alternative language that Sroufe uses, this means that the regulatory system of the infant is transformed from being "dyadic" to being "individual.

affects ought to be studied in their own right, and that they constitute an independent sphere of knowledge—distinct from perception, cognition, and memory. According to Tomkins, affects are primary biological motivating mechanisms and can, thus, be understood as having primacy in human agency.