Top 1200 Butterfly Effect Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

Occasionally I do movies with other directors. I did 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' for Julian Schnabel. I did a movie with Jim Brooks ('How Do You Know'). I did a movie with Judd Apatow ('Funny People'). So I do get a chance to work with other people, which is always enjoyable, always pleasant. But still, Steven [Spielberg] makes the types of movies that I'm interested in as well.

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

Social media has had a corrosive effect on government and trust, and I think it is a real cause for concern.

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The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

I'm not gonna be one of those guys who's going to do the Conor McGregor effect and talk a bunch of crap to make money.

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.

Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.

He had a sort of positive effect - you saw Salah and wanted to work harder. Talent and sacrifice.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.