It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
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.
I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
You don't have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you're on your game and how they can lift you.
Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.
But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
A thought given out every day to others and to the world can have a great effect.
