Top 1200 Butterfly Effect Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

There's a negative effect when you run around without exhausting everything that happens with the play call.

When you're very close to having your life taken away from you, it would be strange if that didn't have an effect on you.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

It's always going to have an effect when your father comes up and scolds you in front of a lot of people.

I cut out bread, I don't eat after 6 P.M., and I go on walks, and it's had a great effect.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect it has on people, there's something so powerful in that.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

I've spent 35 years sitting on a motorbike in the rain. It's not had too good an effect on my bones.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

If you bring in actors right when you're breaking story, it has a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' effect.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

The Internet creates more space for extremism, and the echo chamber effect accelerates the process.

I don't have, like, a huge effect on the crowd, I'd say. So not having fans isn't the craziest thing to me.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.