Effects Quotes - Page 15

• The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.

  Paul Fry

  Reading, Mind, Fiction

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things.

  David Papineau

  Differences, Feelings, Events

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.

  David Papineau

  Smart, Order, Way

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

  David Papineau

  Done, Care, Speak

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Weekend, Differences, Weekdays

  Source: time.com

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• Obviously movies like this [Fast and the Furious 7] don't get any love from the Academy. If they do, it may be special effects or sound editing or something like that.

  Bun B

  Editing, Special, Sound

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• Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies, but their effects are transitory: the new synthetic complex quickly falls apart. Proust's characters, by contrast, often achieve lasting changes of perspective.

  Philip Kitcher

  Fall, Character, Lasting Change

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).

  Philip Kitcher

  Perspective, Different, Narrative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.

  Philip Kitcher

  Giving Up, Artist, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Careers, Colonialism

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I'm still exploring. As I look back, Nénette Et Boni had a massive effect on the album we made after it, Curtains. I think it's been like that all the way through. Trouble Every Day had a massive effect on Can Our Love... I think it's allowed us to raise our heads, take a bit of a left turn, explore different avenues, and then come back to our own thing and see it in a different way.

  Stuart A. Staples

  Thinking, Different, Albums

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the workings of the mind. It doesn't work the way we pretheoretically think it does. Such an understanding, of course, should have a large effect on one's views in philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Causes, Cause And Effect, Grows

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• There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Mean, Commitment, Giving

  "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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• I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

  Harold Ramis

  Couple, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Office, Foreign Policy, Ifs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love the fact that we've made a film that not only the whole family can go to and enjoy but, you know, it's actually having an effect. You know, Rey's character is a tough woman who your 6-year-old can pick up a lightsaber now and go for it.

  Maryann Brandon

  Character, Years, Facts

  "'Star Wars' Editors Defy Hollywood Conventions". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.

  Deborah Smith

  Country, Class, White

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

  Nicholas Royle

  Artist, Europe, Theatre

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, Prison, Environment

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• The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, over the long term. Because once again, it proved to Muslims that their governments couldn't protect them and would side with the enemy.

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Age, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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