Effects Quotes - Page 37

• When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

  Wynton Marsalis

  Ability, Loses

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• A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Subconscious, Bounds

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Book, Writing

  "George R. R. Martin Interview GAME OF THRONES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2011.

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• I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, School, Profound

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Guy, Special

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Excess

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.47, Random House

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• If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Decision, Drug

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• What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Missing

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• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Media, Information

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Ian Mckellen

  People, Australia And New Zealand, Lord

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• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Pain, Mind

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Care

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Light, Events, Hell

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

  Joyce Meyer

  Real, Trying, Way

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• As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Charity, Matter

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.227, University of Chicago Press

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• Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Sound, Doe

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• I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Creative, Steps

  "Moore's murderer". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2002.

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• All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

  George Edward Moore

  Law, Moral, Action

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• I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

  Michael Moore

  World, Littles, Film

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• The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Confused, Opposites

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• Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

  Elon Musk

  Break, Hard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Iraq

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• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, People, Dollars

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• Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Organization, Hezbollah

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• Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Causes, Doe

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