Quotes About Cause

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Life is a dream. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another.

Everything in life happens for a reason.

Root cause analysis is the name of the game: investigate the accident until the single, underlying cause is found. What this ought to mean is that when people have indeed made erroneous decisions or actions, we should determine what caused them to err. This is what root cause analysis ought to be about. Alas, all too often it stops once a person is found to have acted inappropriately.

So the hierarchy of goals is roughly: satisfy hunger; eat; cook; read cookbook; get more light. This is called a root cause analysis: asking "Why?" until the ultimate, fundamental cause of the activity is reached.

When many people all have the same problem, shouldn't another cause be found? If the system lets you make the error, it is badly designed. And if the system induces you to make the error, then it is really badly designed.

Así pues, ¿cómo ofrecer sentido a nuestros clientes potenciales? De manera no muy diferente a como les brindamos la oportunidad de ser generosos, lo que hacemos es invitarlos a participar en algo que es más grande que ellos mismos. Un movimiento. Una causa que promover. Una lucha valerosa contra un malo real, ya sea de carne y hueso o una filosofía perjudicial.

Things happened, he knew, because other things had happened.

English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocent of all quirks and cranks; a language obsessed with action, and with the joy of seeing action multiply from action, action marching relentlessly ahead and with yet more actions filing in from either side to fall into neat step at the rear, in a long straight rank of cause and effect toward what will be inevitable, the only possible end.

War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days.

The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer.

Spiritual practice is not a mindless repetition of ritual or prayer. It works through consciously realizing the law of cause and effect. Perhaps we can sense the potential of awakening in ourselves, but we must also see that it doesn't happen by itself. How we act, how we relate to ourselves, to our bodies, to the people around us, to our work, creates the kind of world we live in, creates our very freedom.

Worries about the reliability of the understanding arose only when Hume realized that, properly speaking, we have no idea at all what we are talking about when we call one thing the cause of another. We come to believe that one thing is the cause of another when the two things in question have presented themselves in our experience in a particular way.

Hume was especially interested in how the relation of ownership, or property, insinuates itself into our emotional lives to the point where it is the principal cause of these 'indirect' passions.

The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.

When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.

Abuse is not caused by bad relationship dynamics.