Top 696 Affect Quotes

It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.
Selman Waksman
Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn’t overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That’s when things go wrong. It doesn’t have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren’t as happy in that skin.
Harry Melling
The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.
Alexander Lukashenko
There are people who can’t stand me, they say, ‘God, he makes me sick’, or, ‘He’s creepy’, but it doesn’t affect me too badly.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Sometimes, you feel like, ‘Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?’ Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.
Jessica Williams
A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I’d like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
Michelle MacLaren
Whether we’re too embarrassed or shy – or worried that a discussion about cost might affect the quality of our care – it’s clear that both doctors and patients need to do more communicating.
Suleika Jaouad
I think some fighters, when they throw a punch and throw everything they have, and it doesn’t affect the other person, it might crush them a bit.
Joseph Parker
People talk about pressure in football, but I don’t think pressure should always affect you in a bad way. I love games under pressure.
Wojciech Szczesny
If your rookie can affect a win or a loss early, then his ceiling is going to be crazy.
Channing Frye
We’re too complacent. We let things happen to us. And you don’t have to let things happen to you. You can affect change.
Reed Morano
The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
John McWhorter
Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
Matt Emmons
Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we’re dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.
Paul Provenza
Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.
Emily Calandrelli
Success is a completely abstract thing – it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
Rachel Kushner
While monetary policy can contribute to growth by supporting a durable expansion in a context of price stability, it cannot reliably affect the long-run sustainable level of the economy’s growth.
Jerome Powell
If I don’t look the way I wanna look, I don’t feel confident. I’m sure that’s most people, but it really does affect my confidence if I’m not dressed the way I want to dress.
Tan France
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions – they’re too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that’s a chronic thing that’s solved in an-inter personal context.
Drew Pinsky
The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.
Jon Oringer
Who’d have thought that living life like a dime store floozy throughout your formative years could negatively affect your decision-making ability or long-term, future relationships?
Steven Crowder
Even when I was in my 20s, very few of my friends even knew that I had alopecia. I kept it under wraps. I didn’t want to let anyone know, and I didn’t want it to affect my career or the possibility of me getting hired for a job.
Anthony Carrigan
I know everyone wants to see India winning on home soil, be it in hockey or cricket. But sometimes with expectations come pressure, which can affect our performance.
Sandeep Singh
If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that’s going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.
Brent Faiyaz
Anything that's been useful to me as a person has been

Anything that’s been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of your happiness will affect your work. The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the better you are as another identity.
Killian Scott
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
Larry J. Sabato
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I’m going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
Anne Tyler
I have no faith in the justice system so I don’t let anything affect me.
Danny Rose
Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don’t receive benefits.
Mick Mulvaney
Hits and flops happen in everyone’s careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can’t let that affect your conviction.
Sajid Nadiadwala
Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.
George Lucas
I’m not an actor that tends to care. I don’t ask ‘Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing? If I look up and notice the camera I go ‘Oh, it’s a big one today, must be an IMAX.’ And that’s kinda it for me because it doesn’t affect what I’m doing.
Christian Bale
I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?
Rana el Kaliouby
I’m left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don’t affect me; most emotions don’t.
Walter O’Brien
Coal is used to generate power almost everywhere, but problems associated with coal ash and coal ash slurry disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities, experts say.
Tatiana Schlossberg
Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there’s a lack of consumer confidence, if there’s a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.
George Papandreou
Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don’t all work on every actor.
Terry Zwigoff
War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience – childbirth – into a horrific or even fatal one.
Philomena Kwao
But if President Trump’s policies continue to negatively affect Wisconsin families, I won’t cater to his demands or waver from my position. I will not be a doormat. I will fight for our state, our families and our values.
Tony Evers
Everybody has different issues, good or bad, that they carry with them on the court. It affects you. And for me, it affected me to where sometimes I would be overly aggressive and, in other ways, it would affect people to where they can’t perform on the court.
Metta World Peace
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
Gerhard Richter
At the end of the day it’s going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I’ve learned to take a step back and ask myself if it’s really going to affect me, if this person who I’m never going to know or meet doesn’t like me – and it doesn’t.
Lauren Conrad
In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn’t affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.
Stuart Broad
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.
Stephen Breyer
It’s human nature – we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there’s this thing that isn’t choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth.
Stephanie Labbe
My music is about a joyful experience. I’ve learned that if you can affect other people, you should.
Cyndi Lauper
When I was younger, I did have some dresses that weren’t the best fits, and it can definitely affect you during a match – if you’re having to constantly pull the dress down, for example!
Ana Ivanovic
Showing ‘Get Out’ to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.
Allison Williams
‘One by Two’ is a film about two people who live in the same city and do certain things that affect each other’s lives. Yet, they are strangers. It’s difficult to put the film in any particular genre or box.
Abhay Deol
We don’t know anything about racism. We’ve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
Jane Elliott
Many people talk about the mind-body connection and how what we think can affect our physical self. What I have found, even more than the mental connection, is that the emotions rule the body.
Mandy Ingber
There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.
Peter Garrett