T Quotes
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“The effect of the coke on our relationship [with my wife Brenda] was very sick. Now that it's over, those were actually funny times. Looking for each other's coke, hiding it, finding it, doing some, not telling the other. Then fighting over it.”
“The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
“The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.”
“The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.”
Source: The South Pole
“The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.”
Source: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
“The effect of the mortification of the domestic affections upon the general character was probably very pernicious. The family circle is the appointed sphere, not only for the performance of manifest duties, but also for the cultivation of the affections; and the extreme ferocity which so often characterised the ascetic was the natural consequence of the discipline he imposed upon himself. Severed from all other ties, the monks clung with desperate tenacity to their opinions and to their Church, and hated those who dissented from them with all the intensity of men whose whole lives were concentrated on a single subject, whose ignorance and bigotry prevented them from conceiving the possibility of any good thing in opposition to themselves, and who had made it a main object of their discipline to eradicate all natural sympathies and affections.”
Source: History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
“The effect of the pecuniary interest and the pecuniary habit of mind upon the growth of institutions is seen in those enactments and conventions that make for security of property, enforcement of contracts, facility of pecuniary transactions, vested interests. Of such bearing are changes affecting bankruptcy and receiverships, limited liability, banking and currency, coalitions of labourers or employers, trusts and pools. The community's institutional furniture of this kind is of immediate consequence only to the propertied classes, and in proportion as they are propertied; that is to say, in proportion as they are to be ranked with the leisure class. But indirectly these conventions of business life are of the gravest consequence for the industrial process and for the life of the community. And in guiding the institutional growth in this respect, the pecuniary classes, therefore, serve a purpose of the most serious importance to the community, not only in the conservation of the accepted social scheme, but also in shaping the industrial process proper.
The immediate end of this pecuniary institutional structure and of its amelioration is the greater facility of peaceable and orderly exploitation; but its remoter effects far outrun this immediate object. Not only does the more facile conduct of business permit industry and extra-industrial life to go on with less perturbation; but the resulting elimination of disturbances and complications calling for an exercise of astute discrimination in everyday affairs acts to make the pecuniary class itself superfluous. As fact as pecuniary transactions are reduced to routine, the captain of industry can be dispensed with. This consummation, it is needless to say, lies yet in the indefinite future. The ameliorations wrought in favour of the pecuniary interest in modern institutions tend, in another field, to substitute the 'soulless' joint-stock corporation for the captain, and so they make also for the dispensability of the great leisure-class function of ownership. Indirectly, therefore, the bent given to the growth of economic institutions by the leisure-class influence is of very considerable industrial consequence.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class
“The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go; with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.”
“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.”
“The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.”
“The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.”
“The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.”
“The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”
“The effect or impact any occurrence has is only temporary, even though at first it may indeed be overburdening.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.”
Source: The Writing of Fiction
“The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
[The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]”
“The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.”
“The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
“The effective criticism is the one that focuses on behavior not on the personality. The difference between both realizes it every rational parent and educator. The directed criticism on the boy’s or on the girl’s personality will burn the space that all the family members stand on.”
“The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.”
“The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.”
“The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.”
Source: Effective Leadership
“The effective possibility of a vital religious fellowship which is so creative in character, so convincing in quality that it inspires the mind to multiply experiences of unity—which experiences of unity become over and over and over again more compelling than the concepts, the ways of life, the sects, and creeds that separate men.”
Source: The Creative Encounter
“The effective prayers are affirmations.”
“The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.”
“The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.”
“The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.”
“The effective way to please people is not to people-please but to take the risk of behaving in a real way around them, which might well involve a few tantrums - something that which we should ultimately be reassured by and feel grateful to be on the receiving end of.”
Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships
“The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.”
“The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.”
Source: Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
“The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.”
“The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.”
“The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.”
“The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”
“The effectiveness of your life is determined by how much impact you make”
“The effectiveness of your life is determined by your ability to convert your time into values”
“The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life”
“The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.”
“The effects of color are controlled by intuition.”
“The effects of death and grief were so consuming that they had the power to age your soul.”
Source: Wilder Saint
“The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.”
“The effects of Fate come together like stew simmering with provisions from the universe. Which ingredients we’ve used make the end result easy to swallow or bitterly distasteful. So choose wisely for, when our lot in life is done, only those young enough or strong enough can toss their destiny aside and start over.”
Source: Trampled Underfoot: The Dirt on Vic and Lia
“The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.”
“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”
“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.”