Effect Upon Quotes

47 quotes by 45 authors

I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are… — Christopher Alexander
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure.Â That is the essential paradox of expert performance. — Matthew Syed
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. — L. Ron Hubbard
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the… — Gillian Welch
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a… — George Henry Borrow
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about… — Charlton Laird
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end… — Joshua Reynolds
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and… — Orson Welles
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its… — Emma Goldman
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. — Thomas Merton
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active… — Edgar Allan Poe
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that… — Charles Bukowski
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the… — Patrick O'Brian
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences… — Wassily Kandinsky
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
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
But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he… — Mahatma Gandhi

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