Quotes about Effect

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Music is made out of nothing but some fairly simple rules. Yet it's true that no one made them up. The rules. The notes themselves amount to almost nothing. But why some particular arrangement of these notes should have such a profound effect on our emotions is a mystery beyond even the hope of comprehension. Music is not a language. it has no reference to anything other than itself

there is no such thing as a neutral exchange. You leave someone either a little better or a little worse.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

It begins in the hearts of people and has ripple effects that spread to the farthest reaches of sin.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

The effect of the rupture that sin created in the relationship between the man and the woman is this: mistrust, anger, and disappointment became the standard quality of human life. Even

You cannot choose conditions and reject the consequences. Even a "bill of rights" cannot change that.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.