Effect Quotes

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Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But… — Michael Patrick Jann
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect. — Arthur Frederick Saunders
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. — George Bernard Shaw
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped.… — Charles Caleb Colton
Don't let life affect your worship; let your worship effect life — Lamar Boschman
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to… — A. Theodore Tuttle
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in… — B. H. Liddell Hart
While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard. — B. H. Liddell Hart
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic… — B. H. Liddell Hart
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an… — Sydney Smith
To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll… — Peter Jackson
Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These… — Richard Moss
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's… — Bodhidharma
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct.… — Bodhidharma
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes… — Thomas a Kempis
Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the… — James Hunter

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