Top 696 Affect Quotes

The central predictions of the quantity theory are that, in the long run, money growth should be neutral in its effects on the growth rate of production and should affect the inflation rate on a one-for-one basis.
Robert Lucas, Jr.
It’s important as an athlete to know your body and how things affect it.
Marc Gasol
My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I w

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won’t block the shot but I’m going to affect the shot or I’m going to affect the way they think.
Rudy Gobert
It’s just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we’re just trying to spread the word.
Jamie Oliver
Disasters affect every state, and North Carolinians have given our own tax dollars to help neighbors and those in other states in times of crisis.
Roy Cooper
I make notes about things I see in films that really affect me, like the ending of ‘Jules and Jim.’ I think about how I can utilize things in my work. And I have a team of people who keep me down to earth.
John Singleton
When you’re competing, you don’t have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn’t affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.
Oscar Pistorius
People start talking about you and spreading false information, and it can really affect your spirit. So faith is very important to me.
Rochelle Aytes
Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.
Drew Pinsky
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society.
Ani DiFranco
It’s hard to imagine you’ve got these massive wings in your back. You have to think about how it’s going to affect your posture, affect the way you move, just, like, the sheer weight of them.
Ben Hardy
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
David Ricardo
Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that’s beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people… the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.
Marketa Irglova
In hip-hop, I wasn’t very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn’t connect. What I wanted to do is write stories… and affect someone’s emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I’m able to accomplish that.
Aloe Blacc
I don’t want anything to affect my freedom, and we don’t want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.
Jamal Khashoggi
I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.
Anita Hill
I’m uncomfortable with men making decisions that affect women’s health.
Valerie Jarrett
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are real, and they affect the way police departments have acted toward Black Americans.
Conor Lamb
I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, ‘Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?’ or, ‘Is it something that you think that you need to do?’ And I told her, ‘I don’t care. It’s important to me.’
Adam Rippon
You’re damn right I’m comfortable, I’ve worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I’ve always tried to impress upon people is that these folks in the houses of parliament affect what’s in your wage packet, the welfare of your kids, your health. Why wouldn’t we be interested in it?
Mick Hucknall
The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It’s not like it doesn’t affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
Pat Conroy
It doesn’t affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.
Gerardo Martino
I think the more people that feel comfortable in their own skin and feel happy that they can come out and know that it’s not going to affect their job or moving up in their career is the way forward. Just making people feel happy and comfortable in their own job and in their sport.
Nicola Adams
We look at Donald Trump: his bottom line is interconnected to all kinds of financial interests that he refuses to disclose. They actually affect his net worth.
Robby Mook
Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people’s. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That’s why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It’s a field of vibrations – you can ‘feel’ someone else’s thoughts when close to them.
Bruce Lipton
I’ve done a lot of work on that so that no matter where I am in a team, whatever role I’m playing, it doesn’t affect how I think about myself.
Stephanie Labbe
The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.
Jennifer Doudna
When you’re a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic – everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what’s going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
Abby Wambach
I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.
Matthew Gray Gubler
ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future – a future they didn’t yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.
Alexander Chee
If I become defensive and upset right away, then that’s going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it’s probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I’m angry. Just be open and pleasant.
Brandon Routh
People saying I dive doesn’t affect me at all. Not one bit.
Ashley Young
In a global world, what happens within one country can

In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others.
Richard N. Haass
Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need – indeed, the desire – to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.
Deborah Tannen
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
Alan Lightman
My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
Bresha Webb
Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.
Brianna Keilar
The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, ‘clean energy’ research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.
Martin Rees
That’s what I am trying to be, just trying to affect the game any way possible, rebounding, getting a block, or trying to get a stop even when your shot isn’t falling, because, at the end of the day, all that matters is whether you win or lose.
Jayson Tatum
I think it’s the tragedy of our time that we’re not aware of the affect of the manner in which we’ve adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
Godfrey Reggio
I’m not going to dwell on what someone has said if it doesn’t affect my life. I think that attitude helps to strengthen my character.
Fallon Sherrock
Firms don’t just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm’s behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?
Janet Yellen
I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they’ve worn out. It’s embarrassing, but it doesn’t affect me too much. I shop when I have to.
Mithila Palkar
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
Paul Epworth
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
Clayton M. Christensen
Yes, process and preparations are the most important for me as a player. If preparations are not great, that tends to affect performance. When preparations are perfect you are not searching for results but only counting on performance.
Ajinkya Rahane
Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don’t care about, you’ll see more crappy brands that you don’t care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc.
Robert Scoble