“FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.” PeopleHumansShowsHappensLostTermDealsEffectsEventsMajorsMythologySci FiRippleRipple Effect Author:Sonya Walger
“I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.” WayHumansNaturalInterestingBehindsEffectsEventsMajorsHuman Society Author:Simon Winchester
“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?” IfsLooksBookMatterCultureReadingLeftMeditationEffectsTelevisionTvsMajorsProgramWaveDisappearLook UpProcessingHemisphereAlphasWatching TvWatching TelevisionBetaTheta Author:Leonard Shlain
“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.” ThinkingWorldEffectsBuddhismMajorsWho I AmI Have Learned Author:Uma Thurman
“The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.” EffectsParticularMajorsMessagesResourcesFlowAriseFeaturesGoods Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
“Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.” ThinkingEndsAgeSocialSexLevelsIssuesEffectsHigherMajorsFemaleMalesDecreaseHormonesPubertyTestosterone Author:James McBride
“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.” PeopleFirstsSelfReasonDoneGovernmentLawPoliticalOrderThreeBitsSidesCommunityPoorEffectsMajorsResourcesOrganizationThirdsPressureMethodCourtSupremeTraditionalAdministrationShopsSupreme CourtMaintainingJohnsonAnticipateChildlikeLaw And OrderGleeSide EffectsSmashingHandoutsGreat Society Author:David Frum
“I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.” CharacterStoriesNovelFansEffectsCenturyMajorsDrivenPassagesMinors19th CenturyPassage Of TimeMinor Characters Author:John Irving
“Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.” BookSelfAmericaViewsEffectsMajorsPoint Of ViewThemeHotelDigitalSpheresInteractionPersonaNorth America Author:Rick Moody
“I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.” MightSidesDealsKnowingConditionsEffectsMajorsMedicalMedicationSusceptibleSide EffectsGenomeMedical Conditions Author:Eric Topol
“The White House comes out and says it's going to do a major study of the effects on preschool-age children using Ritalin, Prozac and other drugs. I know in advance what the study's going to say. The results are in before they even start. They're going to do a window-dressing control while praising the overall need for the drugs. In the end they're going to try to peddle more drugs than before while making us think they're clamping down; that's my guess.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingChildrenEndsAgeHouseWhiteResultsStudyEffectsDrugMajorsWindowPraiseWhite HouseDressingsProzacPreschoolRitalinWindow Dressing Author:Michael Savage
“I truly do live my life a day at a time. When I talk to people trying to get through anything, it's a day at a time. If people stop to think, "It's going to be potentially three years and 10 months for the new president to come in," that's a very long time and that can have major effects on somebody's psyche. But if you take this thing a day at a time, and break it down a little differently, and do what you can do today, it will make it easier for people to move forward, and it makes it easier for me to move forward.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingYearsLittlesLongTodayMovingThreePresidentCan DoBreakEffectsMonthsEasierMajorsLong TimeMoving ForwardThree YearsLiving My Life Author:Marty Walsh
“Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.” IfsWorldWayHumansKindStillsSocialHuman BeingsOur LivesEconomicEffectsSecurityDevelopmentJudgmentMajorsImpactGenderPrioritiesAll KindsTransformedEquityEconomic Development Author:Amartya Sen
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.” LanguageReligiousCommonEffectsMajorsNationalismCommon LanguageMolding Author:Hilaire Belloc