Quotes About Effects

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

But the way I look at it is just about every profession in our society: There's some lasting effects. It's just the way that our society is set up. People have to work.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

The explosive growth of the for-profit school industry has had disastrous effects on millions of Americans and our economy.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became a symbol. Late capitalism can't produce many new ideas any more, but it can reliably deliver technological upgrades. But 'Star Wars' didn't really belong to the science fiction genre any way.

I monitor very carefully, in the automobile sector in particular, the development of new technologies which help to limit negative effects on the environment by influencing human actions.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.

the effects of a decline in any one person's after-tax income are dramatically different from those of an across-the-board decline. If you alone experience an income decline, you're less able to buy what you want. But when everyone's income declines simultaneously, relative purchasing power is unaffected. And it's relative purchasing power that determines who gets things that are in short supply.

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

Alcohol is one of the oldest and certainly the most widely used of all consciousness-changing drugs. Unfortunately, it is a rather inefficient and, at the same time, a rather dangerous drug.

In addition to a pitiable cycle of search and inevitable disappointment, she sometimes chose unsuitable partners for friendship, romance, or marriage - perhaps in the unacknowledged belief that in repeating the unhappiness of the past she might, at last, reverse its effects.

If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.

And while taking oestrogen made him cry more and change his taste in movies, when testosterone came back into his body it had an equally 'sexist' set of effects. He noticed a lot of common behaviours. He became more angry, more aggressive and – yes – far more horny. Today he has been off hormones for more than two years. But the effects of his time 'transitioning' across the sexes is still with him.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

terrorism is nothing more than a form of psy­chological warfare, as acts of terrorism have no intrinsic military value aside from their effects on the psyches of the target populations.

fact that marijuana is one of the few drugs for which there is no lethal dose and no proven long-term harm.

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.