Top 696 Affect Quotes

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son’s perspective.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

In my opinion, gentrification can sometimes affect what’s happening on the ends. You’re placing people in different places, moving them around, and you’re taking them out of their comfort zone and into places they’re not used to being in.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

I think you are going through so many ‘firsts’ as a teenager, and it’s a charged time because of that. You don’t have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.

You affect the world by what you browse.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

I’d never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I’d break my leg and it would affect my career.

It’s very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can’t be wrong.

It’s very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don’t know if it’s always going to be there, what price it’s going to be there, whether the country’s going to allow it to be exported, or whether it’s going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.

Michigan’s problems are not partisan problems. Potholes are not political. There is no such thing as Republican or Democratic school kids or drinking water. These challenges affect us all. They make Michigan a harder place to get ahead. A harder place to raise a family. A harder place to run a business.

No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

I’m a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn’t really affect me when I’m at school or with my mates.

Criticism certainly doesn’t affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I’m sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

If you’re going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There’s a reason why he’s been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He’s the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

As a doctor, I understand how actions can affect lives.

I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn’t seem to affect me.

Having served as a member of parliament for more than two decades, I’m well aware that there can be genuine constraints that affect the speed at which certain issues progress.

You always wonder how a coach’s demeanor will be going from assistant to head coach. They can kind of change, the personality, and you don’t know how that will affect the team or how they see him.

If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn’t it affect everybody?

So many of the major decisions that affect the entire future of your enterprise happen during its first year in business. In fact, most don’t make it because they don’t know how to get the resources they need to survive.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

It’s very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you’re farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

We all have different causes that touch us emotionally and I believe anybody should fight for a cause they believe in. I’m a Muslim, I’m African, so certain causes will affect me more than they do other people.

People ask me all the time, ‘Are you fed up with reality TV?’ At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can’t ever really knock them. I started on ‘Popstars,’ which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

It’s something that I have to learn to do: affect the game in a different way. If I don’t get it on the offensive end, try to get it on the defensive end.

‘Wild Swans’ showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it’s not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

You know I don’t care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can’t affect the way I eat.

I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don’t push anyone or affect anyone’s space.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

I’ve seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it’s ugly.

Fibers made on Earth, and thus made in the presence of gravity, have impurities and defects in the glass that adversely affect transmission speed and quality.

Whatever you sexual orientation is, it doesn’t affect how you work or who you are or what you do.

It’s actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they’re forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

A lot of times, when you don’t have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don’t think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

I’d request politicians to stop diverting attention from the actual issues that affect the country. Please stop resorting to soft targets like singers and musicians as scapegoats.

The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

As a journalist, I’ve always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don’t think it’s essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

You can always affect things – so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won’t be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I’m so not that woman. I’m passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you’re a lucky individual.

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

Some shows do nosedive at the end, or some piece of content could become incredibly controversial and affect the way the show is seen.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.