Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I…
— Anne Bronte
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Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take…
— Guy Kawasaki
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When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically…
— Neal Shusterman
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big…
— Steven Moffat
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reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.
— Jennifer Egan
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The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in…
— Dion Fortune
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The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
— Henry Rollins
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The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips…
— Suzanne Collins
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It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Each one of us is like that butterfly the Butterfly Effect . And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of…
— Shawn Achor
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In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing…
— Louis de Bernieres
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Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved...…
— John Green
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When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed…
— Naomi Wolf
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Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.…
— Naomi Wolf
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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it…
— John Steinbeck
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When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the…
— Robin Hobb
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I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that…
— Haruki Murakami
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This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and…
— Orson Scott Card
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