“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.” PeopleThinkingWayIdeasActionSpeakEffectsPlanetsRippleRipple 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.” IfsThinkingFilmParentWalksEffectsWindHugeAdultsEightDinnerBrilliantKurosawa 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.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensDoneJobsCoursesEffectsStrangeCapitalistEngineeringEngineers 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.” ThinkingBigsMotherLeftFeltSidesSpaceEffectsHugeFilledHoles 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.” IfsThinkingWayDoeWholeHumanityUniverseEnergyEffectsPlanetsBuddhismSubtleProgressivePositive ThoughtsThink PositiveThinking 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.” ThinkingSoundTermEnvironmentEffectsSound 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.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindMayLittlesVoiceMysteryEffectsEasierProfoundWho I AmNarrativeAbidingOf My MindNarrative 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.” ThinkingWorldLongTermQualityEffectsScreensVideoSuperiorsCinemaSensitiveLong 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?” ThinkingWellsRunningFilmUsedEffectsTelevisionIndustryUsed To BeDigitalVisionariesFilm And TelevisionTelevision Industry Author:Bill Mumy