Best effects & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Action Speak Effects Planets Ripple Ripple Effect

Author:Victoria Moran

“You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.”

Ifs Thinking Film Parent Walks Effects Wind Huge Adults Eight Dinner Brilliant Kurosawa

Author:Ann Patchett

“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Jobs Courses Effects Strange Capitalist Engineering Engineers

Author:George Saunders

“Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.”

Thinking Bigs Mother Left Felt Sides Space Effects Huge Filled Holes

Author:Imelda Staunton

“You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.”

Ifs Thinking Way Doe Whole Humanity Universe Energy Effects Planets Buddhism Subtle Progressive Positive Thoughts Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.”

Thinking Sound Term Environment Effects Sound Effects

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind May Littles Voice Mystery Effects Easier Profound Who I Am Narrative Abiding Of My Mind Narrative Voice

Author:Gillian Welch

“I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.”

Thinking World Long Term Quality Effects Screens Video Superiors Cinema Sensitive Long Term

Author:Ann Macbeth

“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?”

Thinking Wells Running Film Used Effects Television Industry Used To Be Digital Visionaries Film And Television Television Industry

Author:Bill Mumy

“I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Reason Force Interest Situation Clear Effects Judgment Resources Careful Commit Mogadishu

Author:Anthony Zinni

“Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.”

Thinking Effects Right Now Tough Quitting Hey Urban Going Gets Tough

Author:Maurice Jones-Drew

“When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.”

Thinking Feels Trying Mind May Ideas States Seems Form Evil Force Effects Masters Adversity Developing Bad Ideas Undesirable

Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them

“You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.”

Thinking Writing May Littles Book Language Effects Goes On Spite

Author:Charlton Laird

“I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.”

Thinking Want Certain Voice Powerful Crazy Effects Demand Vocal Electronic Music

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.”

People Thinking Sometimes Used Strong Easy Voice Ability Common Effects Instruments Core Used To Be These Days Underrated Craftsmanship

Author:Victoria Legrand

“Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.”

Thinking Want Sometimes Pay Effects Summer Dollars Spectacles

Author:Jan de Bont

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”

Thinking Love Feels Doe Able Lying Trouble Effects All Things Burden Warrants

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.”

“The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Realizing Cases Effects Fixed

Author:David Hockney

“Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.”

Thinking Mind Facts Action Evil Results Conditions Effects Eating Guides Chains Meat Our Actions Highlights Matching Beastly Meat Eating

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.”

People Thinking States Term Economy Effects Flow Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Grows Realizing Effects Aging Enormous Frightening Time To Think

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.”

Thinking Effects Jew Tickets

Author:Ed Rendell

“What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.”

Thinking Happens Effects Like You Comic About Yourself Exaggeration

Author:Wayne Knight

“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.”

“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.”

Thinking Long Strong Causes Term Results Effects Century Aspect Crisis Train Significant 21st Century Cause And Effect Lag

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.”

People Thinking Sides Effects Alcohol Bars Stopping Menus Side Effects

Author:A.S. King

“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Belief Doubt Effects Depends Philosophical Conviction Artistic Blasphemy Fading

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.”

Thinking Ends Effects Havens Painter Composition Composing Monotonous Time To Think

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.”

“I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.”

Thinking Knows World Looks War Effects China Chinese Civil War Divided Asia Opium

Author:Dennis C. Blair

“How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Persons Long Justice Effects Ought Habit Fairs Aids Administration Assistance Blunders Habits Of Mind Administration Of Justice

Author:Learned Hand

“When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.”

Thinking Use Games Effects Particular Computer Creating Tasks Direct Drawing Invisible Manipulation Editing Playing Games Computer Systems Drawing Pictures

Author:Donald A. Norman

“I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.”

Thinking Trying Wells Effects Exercise Moderates

Author:Mel Gibson

“I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Long Humor Happens Pain Term Effects Perspective Constant Endless Comic Long Term Sensibility Renewal Short Term Coping Filters

Author:Woody Allen

“In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.”

Ifs Thinking Sex Differences Emotion Doubt Effects Elements Feminist Restaurants Academic Aggression Hormones Time To Think Libido Sex Differences

Author:Camille Paglia

“A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?".”

Thinking Looks Said Beautiful Streets Effects Mets Unhappy Friendly Colleagues Strolling Copenhagen

Book:Wolfgang Pauli: das Gewissen der Physik

Source: Wolfgang Pauli: das Gewissen der Physik

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.”

Ifs Thinking Evil Names Effects Praying Deeds

Book:At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi

Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi

“People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.”

People Thinking Matter Use Powerful Creativity Creative Effects Talent Keys Elements Luck Fundamentals

Book:The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

Source: The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

“Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them.”

People Thinking Looks Eye Order Effects Birth Corners Disappear Data Analyzing

Book:The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

Source: The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

“One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.”

Thinking Writing Reason Enough Use Causes One Thing Effects Taste Wine Cause And Effect

Author:Gerald Asher

“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.”

“Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.”

Thinking World Effects Buddhism Majors Who I Am I Have Learned

Author:Uma Thurman

“But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamentalists who condemn New Age channelers do not dismiss it as a fraud..., but instead think that Ramtha and the others are channeling demons. If they said it was sheer delusion, they know where the other four fingers would wind up pointing!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Said Age Cases Four Atheism Effects Wind Fingers Positive Atheism Demon Delusion Suspects Fraud Sheer They Said New Age Pointing Channeling Personal Relationships

Author:Robert M. Price

“I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.”

People Thinking Love Is Interesting Attention Effects Admire Being Famous Getting Laid

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

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