Effect Quotes
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Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
Zane Grey
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To do the opposite of what you feel may feel like the hardest thing to do, but it has an immediate effect.
Carolyn Mahaney
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The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
Noreena Hertz
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Honore de Balzac
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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
George Bernard Shaw
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A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
Heraclitus
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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Irving Kirsch
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Oscar Wilde
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Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.
Lilli Palmer
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I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
Ariel Pink
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The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
Joseph Lancaster
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The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism.
Jeff Cohen
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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
Judd Nelson
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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
Albert Bandura
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I just hate to see what's happening today with golf clubs that I consider to be illegal, ... I'd stop the grooves being so deep (on the ball), and I'd stop the trampoline effect in the wood.
Gary Player
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In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.
Ben Bernanke
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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
George Bernard Shaw
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Vernon Howard
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Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.
Dennis Hastert
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If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good. If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.
Antonio Gotto
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The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Sigmund Freud