Causally Quotes

#1. When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

Albert Bandura

#2. It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

Richard Swinburne

#3. The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#4. Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and intangible, and might best be described, I think, as a semi-fictional narrative that is in constant need of writing, editing, and preserving.

Neel Burton

#5. In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

David Bohm

#6. Our brain is not cut out for nonlinearities. People think that if, say, two variables are causally linked, then a steady input in one variable should always yield a result in the other one. Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Synchronicity ... means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#8. The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Will Self

#9. The act of connection produces a fork in causality, the new branch causally unique. A stub, as we call them.

William Gibson

#10. The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give objective answers, yes or no, to questions whether events are causally connected.

Gavin De Beer

#11. We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

Carl Jung

#12. Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

George Trumbull Ladd

#13. Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Albert Einstein

#14. What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

Berenice Abbott

#15. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance.

Neal A. Maxwell

#16. A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk ...
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

Sylvia Plath

#17. The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Corliss Lamont

#18. I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.

Jess Glynne

#19. But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

Natalia Ginzburg

#20. Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide

#21. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.

Bob Rae

#22. There is no success where there are no secrets.

John Kramer

#23. This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Harrison Birtwistle

#24. The moment we feel we can succeed and attain victory over sin by the strength of our will alone is the moment we are worshiping the will.

Richard J. Foster

#25. What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

Ray LaHood

#27. But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

William Zinsser

#28. If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

Evagrius Ponticus

#29. The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Norman Rockwell