Top 690 Effect Quotes

I’m not a massive fan of 3D. I’ve seen some good 3D, and I’ve seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it’s a certain type of film that I’m not massively bothered about.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect – it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

I like the effect drink has on me.

Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I’m left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

I’m a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

I wasn’t thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

You don’t have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you’re on your game and how they can lift you.

There’s a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you’re only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you’re part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

I begin by considering an effect.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

Now the truth is, a president really can’t control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

I’m trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I’m trying to look at why they’re going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn’t mean we’ve looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures – joined with the similar failures of others – can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably – besides the first two ‘Alien’ films, I watch ‘2001’, I watch ‘Star Wars’, the first ones, because those actually had a huge effect on me as well, ‘Empire Strikes Back’ especially.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there’s no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you’ve got it, the law can keep you locked up because there’s no chance for cure.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

I think high school’s very difficult. You’re figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That’s what consumer confidence is.

Well unfortunately I didn’t work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music – combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

I’m not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there’s a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it’s more like an actor learning a part.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can’t effect change.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

I’m one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group… Obviously it’s something that affects you forever. It’s going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it’s becoming more and more common.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you’re not, you start to question if maybe there’s something wrong with you for not getting it.

The sound of a mother’s voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody’s face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.