Quotes on Effects

Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

No effect of work can be eternal.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

All is bound by the law of causation

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn't really have any effect on me.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how_x000D_ little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be_x000D_ broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.